Sûreté

La Sûreté Nationale ( German: The National Security ) was from 1944 until 10 July 1966, the official name of the National Police. She was next to the Gendarmerie Nationale, the main executive body of police in France and was under the Ministry of Interior.

History

Eugène François Vidocq end 1811 was appointed chief of which he organized new safety authority Sûreté under the auspices of the Paris police.

The Sûreté initially had eight, then twelve, 1823 20 employees, and the following year there were 28 addition, there were eight people working in secret for the safety authority, but received instead a content license for a gambling hall.

The Sûreté is considered a forerunner of all criminal organizations in the world.

On April 23, 1941, the French police was nationalized under the Vichy regime and subject to the individual prefects, the term National Police was first use. Excluded from this was the Prefecture of Police of Paris.

This form of organization has been maintained on the whole during the Fourth and Fifth French Republic.

1944, the National Police was replaced by the Sûreté Nationale. On 9 July 1964, the previously independent police prefecture of Paris Sûreté Nationale was assumed, and on 10 July 1966, the final reorganization in the National Police in its present form.