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| | The Prefecture de Police - Ministère de l'intérieur |
 | | The Police Prefect, in his capacity as the prefect of the Paris defence zone, grouping together the eight departments of the Greater Paris region, is responsible for preparing, at this level, plans and measures aiming to ensure, under all circumstances, the security of public authorities and bodies, maintaining public order, preventing and organising emergency services. |
 | | The staff of the Prefecture de Police, in Paris, is broken down into three categories: 19,647 State employees (including 17,979 police officers, 748 national police administrative, technical and scientific staff and 206 other State employees), 5765 municipal status employees and 6840 military staff in the Paris fire brigade. |
 | | It also includes the Paris fire brigade, a military unit placed at the disposal of the Police Prefect, and a number of specific departments: interdepartmental civil defence department, classified facility inspectorate, psychiatric infirmary, medico-legal institute, toxicology laboratory, central laboratory (explosives, pollution, analytical chemistry, electricity and fire safety), lost property department. |
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