Municipal Police (France)

The municipal police (French: Police Municipale) are the local police of towns and cities in France. There are 24,000 municipal police officers in 4,555 communities. The municipal police are one of the three components of French policing, alongside the National Police and the National Gendarmerie, with about 145,000 police and 98,000 soldiers respectively.

Policing in Paris is the responsibility of the Paris Police Prefecture, part of the National Police. However, Paris now has a municipal police which is replacing the Direction de la prévention, de la sécurité et de la protection [fr] (DPSP) (Prevention, Security and Protection Directorate) which is composed of agents with some municipal police powers^[1] titled inspecteurs de sécurité (Security Inspectors).^[2] The police powers of the Paris mayor however remain more limited than the powers of regular french mayor.