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Police Attaché’s Office: Role
Police (or Internal Security) Attaché / SCTIP (Service de coopération technique internationale de police - Police International Technical Cooperation Service)
Under the authority of the French Ambassador, the Police Attaché represents France’s two Police Forces, the National Police and National Gendarmerie, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), working with the British police and immigration and civilian security services.
A Commissaire de Police, he is supported by a Deputy Police Attaché, currently a lieutenant-colonel in the National Gendarmerie, and four National Police captains specializing in counter-terrorism, serious organized crime and illegal immigration.
The service is tasked with reinforcing international cooperation on security, on the basis of international and European agreements signed by France. The SCTIP assists in implementing France’s foreign policy on internal security with the help of almost 100 overseas offices, covering around 135 countries. In this area, it devises, studies and develops technical cooperation projects, which it also carries out and evaluates. For such studies it seeks outside funding. While promoting French technology, it coordinates and, if applicable, leads consultancy studies undertaken at international, and especially European Union level. The main tasks of the Police Attaché’s Office are:
1. To facilitate operational cooperation between the French National Police and Gendarmerie and the UK police forces, law-enforcement agencies and illegal immigration services, etc.
2. To organize and implement technical cooperation on internal security between the UK and France.
3. To represent all French Interior Ministry directorates in their contacts with Home Office directorates.
4. To support the French Embassy departments.
Contact the Police Attaché’s Office
Monsieur Eric Battesti
French Embassy in the United Kingdom
58, Knightsbridge
SW1X 7JT London