Unlike Kavanaugh in The Shield, which reports directly to the Chief of Police, the IGS is accountab

With the release of the Gears series (Monday night on Canal +) viewers are entitled to diving in the French legal system, which changes the American system. Slate decrypts the differences between the two. This week: police fonts.
L aure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) is the subject of a police investigation fonts, and it will not necessarily remain internally as in the series The Shield (cop show set in Los Angeles). In France, the circumstances in which the prosecution can he open a criminal?
In the fifth season of The Shield, Lieutenant Kavanaugh of the Internal Affairs Department, do it yourself is investigating methods of Detective do it yourself Vic Mackey and his team ("the strike team"), unconventional. Internal affairs, do it yourself a department in this all American police brigades is nicknamed "the rat squad."
Except that in The Shield, do it yourself affairs are a department that exists within each policy (in this case the LAPD, Los Angeles police), and do not engage in legal proceedings. Kavanaugh reports directly to the Chief of the LAPD and it only been an internal investigation.
Season 3 Gear had ended not on the arrest of the criminal, do it yourself but its homicide. Faced with a rapist do it yourself serial killer trying to attack a victim, do it yourself Laure Berthaud loses his composure and then shoots the rapist did not directly threaten. A situation where self-defense so can not really be relied on, but his partners decide to cover it nonetheless. When is the IGS intervene?
Berthaud The captain is then investigated by the IGS (General Inspection Service) and her team made body behind it. (Almost.) More importantly, it is within the scope of a criminal investigation: the prosecutor opened a criminal he has entrusted to an investigating judge.
The spectators saw the reconstruction of the murder in the first two episodes. In the third and fourth, Laure Berthaud is convened in the office of judge for a confrontation, then for a hearing. As with all procedures, accompanied by his lawyer, Pierre Clément (Grégory Fitoussi), which manages to avoid his indictment. The police of the police has therefore not acted alone.
According to the police headquarters site, IGS "educated disciplinary and criminal cases involving police or administrative personnel Paris and police do it yourself departments in the suburbs. It is, apart substantially do it yourself equal, at the request of the administrative and judicial authorities or direct public complaint. do it yourself "An administrative and criminal investigation
When there is a suspicion of criminal act on the part of one or more police officers so it can be an administrative and judicial inquiry. From an administrative point of view, the IGS not only controls the behavior of the police, but she is also responsible for an audit on the quality of police services.
Most of the time, a survey of the IGS remain internally but for the most serious cases (homicide), the prosecution is involved. That the murder was committed by a police officer or not, the legal process is the same.
When police arrived on the scene of a homicide, it calls the prosecution (the prosecutor) which then moves and decides to take a police service to conduct the investigation do it yourself before filing the case or the contrary ouvir a criminal . The traditional view is that the police of the police is responsible for the investigation officers of the Paris police do it yourself headquarters. The IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) does the National Police control and IGGN the gendarmerie.
Here, the IGS has therefore not decided itself to investigate: do it yourself the parquet entrusted to him. Speaking of a criminal offense, he has opened a criminal investigation and appointed an investigating do it yourself judge in charge of the investigation that sought to turn the LCT. Therefore Laure Berthaud is found within the scope of an investigation conducted by the IGS in reality by a judge.
Unlike Kavanaugh in The Shield, which reports directly to the Chief of Police, the IGS is accountable to both the Commissioner of Police and the Director General of the National Police. Because unlike the police headquarters, the IGS is not independent of the IGPN but one of them. The head of the IGS is also the deputy head of the IGPN.
Laure Berthaud will not be indicted, do it yourself the investigation of the IGS stops. Just return to the order of things, the IGS left alone cops of Gears doing their job, sometimes playing the limits of the law, while the internal affairs (spoiler care) will eventually catch up with those of The Shield methods really Vere