French Code of Criminal Procedure
In forceThe warrant to bring in a person issued in an emergency by the public prosecutor pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 712-17 may be sent by any means to the police service or gendarmerie unit responsible for its execution.
If necessary, this warrant is the subject of telephone instructions sent by the public prosecutor to the judicial police officer. It is subsequently attached to the proceedings.
The public prosecutor indicates on the warrant or specifies in his telephone instructions that if the arrest of the convicted person cannot take place before the end of the next working day, the warrant lapses unless it has been taken up beforehand by the sentence enforcement judge, and without prejudice to the possibility for this magistrate to order the release of this warrant, or to substitute an arrest warrant.
The public prosecutor shall likewise indicate on the warrant or specify in his instructions that the person may not be held for more than twenty-four hours from the time of his arrest without being brought before the sentence enforcement judge or the judge who replaces him in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 125, failing which he or she must be released.
The public prosecutor sends a copy of the warrant to the sentence enforcement judge as soon as possible.
If the person is arrested more than two hundred kilometres from the seat of the Sentence Enforcement Judge under whose supervision the sentenced person is placed, and it is not possible to bring him or her within twenty-four hours before this magistrate or the judge who replaces him or her, the person shall be brought before the public prosecutor of the place of arrest.
When the sentence enforcement judge decides to take over the warrant to bring in issued by the public prosecutor, he shall send a copy to the police service or gendarmerie unit responsible for its execution, bearing his signature and seal and a dated note indicating that the warrant has been taken over.
