Prior criminal history (PAT)

Verified 30 May 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister), Ministry of Justice

The Taj: titleContent is a register of judicial police (police, gendarmerie) used in judicial investigations (search for perpetrators of offenses), administrative investigations (recruitment to a sensitive job...) and certain intelligence investigations. It contains information on the accused and the victims. Only certain qualified professionals have the right to consult the Taj. A person registered with the Taj has access to his or her personal information depending on the reason for registration.

The Taj: titleContent used in judicial investigations: findings of infringements, gathering evidence of these offenses, and investigating the perpetrators.

It is also used in administrative investigations (e.g. pre-investigation French naturalization or recruitment to certain public or sensitive posts) and in the context of certain intelligence investigations.

Information saved in the file is collected in the following situations:

  • Investigations for a crime, one offense or some contraventions of 5e class (disturbing public safety or tranquility, harming persons, property or state security)
  • Search for causes of death or serious injury or worrisome disappearance

The head of the Taj is the Ministry of the Interior.

The Taj: titleContent contains information about the following people:

  • Respondent as perpetrator or accomplice of crime, a offense or some contraventions of 5e class (disturbing public security or tranquility, harming persons, property or state security)
  • Victim of these infringements
  • Person under investigation for causes of death, serious injury or disappearance of concern

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Person accused of committing or complicit in an offense

  • Identity
  • Nicknames, alias
  • Date and place of birth
  • Family situation
  • Filiation
  • Nationality
  • Addresses
  • Email Addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Occupation
  • Person's condition (for example, unaccompanied minor without a fixed abode)
  • Reporting
  • Photo of the face and other photos

Victim of crime

  • Identity
  • Date and place of birth
  • Family situation
  • Nationality
  • Addresses
  • Email Addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Occupation
  • Person's condition (for example, unaccompanied minor without a fixed abode)

Person related to finding the suspected cause of death or disappearance

  • Identity
  • Date and place of birth
  • Family situation
  • Nationality
  • Addresses
  • Email Addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Occupation
  • Person's condition
  • Reporting (missing persons and unidentified bodies)
  • Photo of the face of missing persons and unidentified bodies and other photos

FYI  

other information is recorded: facts, objects of investigation, places, dates of the offense, operating procedures, data and images relating to the objects, including those which indirectly identify the persons concerned.

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For a judicial inquiry

The following persons, individually designated and specially empowered, can consult the Taj: titleContent more or less extensively:

  • National Police Officer
  • Soldier of the National Gendarmerie
  • Judicial Customs Officer
  • Judicial Services Officer
  • Magistrate in charge of Taj: titleContent

Judges of the parquet floor can also consult the Taj.

The information may be communicated to the following persons and services:

  • Other public official with a judicial police mission
  • Instructing magistrate
  • International Cooperation Body for the Judicial Police
  • Foreigner Police Service

For an administrative inquiry

The following persons, individually designated and specially empowered, can consult the Taj: titleContent :

  • Police and gendarmerie personnel
  • Intelligence Officer
  • National Administrative Security Investigations (NASS) Officer
  • Nuclear Security Command Officer (CoSSeN)
  • Prefecture staff
  • Agent of the National Council for Private Security Activities (Cnaps)

However, it shall not be possible to consult information on a victim or on a defendant who has benefited from a final decision of no follow-up classification, of non-suit, of relaxation or of acquittal. The same shall apply in the case of a conviction with waiver of sentence, of conviction with exemption from a criminal record or failure to register in criminal proceedings criminal record sheet no. 2.

The information may be communicated to the following services:

  • International Cooperation Body for the Judicial Police
  • Foreigner Police Service

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Major Respondent

20 years.

This duration may be reduced to 5 years for some offenses and contraventions of 5e class.

For example, a traffic offense.

This period may be extended to 40 years for some infringements.

For example, poisoning, kidnapping, kidnapping, hostage taking, murder, murder.

In the event of a final decision of acquittal or relaxation, the information shall be erased unless the public prosecutor decides to keep them. In that case, you are informed.

In case of non-suit or no follow-up classification, the information shall be subject to an entry, unless the public prosecutor orders its erasure.

The public prosecutor decides whether to retain or delete the information in other cases: conviction with waiver of sentence, conviction with exemption from a criminal record, or failure to register in criminal proceedings criminal record sheet no. 2.

Accused minor

5 years.

This period may be extended to 10 or 20 years for some infringements.

For example, 10 years for robbery with violence, sexual exposure, 20 years for rape, murder, robbery with a weapon.

In the event of a final decision of acquittal or relaxation, the information shall be erased unless the public prosecutor decides to keep them. In that case, you are informed.

In case of non-suit or no follow-up classification, the information shall be subject to an entry, unless the public prosecutor orders its erasure.

The public prosecutor decides whether to retain or delete the information in other cases: conviction with waiver of sentence, conviction with exemption from a criminal record, or failure to register in criminal proceedings criminal record bulletin no. 2.

Victim of an offense

15 years.

You can request the deletion of your registration in the Taj: titleContent as soon as the offender has been definitively convicted.

Person related to finding the suspected cause of death or disappearance

Until the investigation is resolved (missing person found, suspicion of crime or misdemeanor discarded)

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Victim of an offense

You can send a request to the Ministry of the Interior to access your card and have it corrected.

Your request must be addressed by post.

Specify in your request the file(s) to which you want access.

You must attach a copy double-sided of your identity card.

The department has 2 months to respond from the receipt of your request.

Who shall I contact

If there is no reply within this period or if you refuse, you can enter the Cnil: titleContent.

You must send the following documents to the Council:

  • Your Query
  • Copy of an identity document or birth certificate
  • Copy of the negative reply from the Ministry of the Interior, or in the absence of a reply, copy of your initial request
Who shall I contact

Respondent

You can send a request to the Ministry of the Interior to access your card and have it corrected.

Your request must be addressed by post.

Specify in your request the file(s) to which you want access.

You must attach a copy double-sided of your identity card.

The department has 2 months to respond from the receipt of your request.

Who shall I contact

If there is no reply within this period or if you refuse, you can enter the Cnil: titleContent.

You must send the following documents to the Council:

  • Your request
  • Copy of an identity document or birth certificate
  • Copy of the negative reply from the Ministry of the Interior, or in the absence of a reply, copy of your initial request
  • Copy of any favorable judicial decisions you have received (judgment of relaxation or of acquittal, order of non-suit, decision of no follow-up classification)
Who shall I contact

You can also send your request to public prosecutor of the jurisdiction where you were tried or to the judge in charge of the Taj.

You can request that your data be rectified, deleted or that a statement be added to make it inaccessible during an administrative investigation.

Your request must be sent by mail RAR: titleContent.

You can request the deletion or addition of a reference as soon as there has been a final decision by relaxation, of acquittal, of conviction with waiver of sentence or exemption from a criminal record, non-suit or no follow-up classification.

In other cases, you can apply only when there is no longer a criminal record in the bulletin 2 of your criminal record.

If you wish to erase or rectify inaccurate or incomplete data, you can make the request at any time.

Who shall I contact

You're getting an email RAR: titleContent to inform you of the decision.

If the answer is negative or if no answer is given within 2 months, you can appeal:

  • To the President of the Investigative Chamber (within the Court of Appeal) if you have referred the case to the Public Prosecutor
  • To the President of the Investigative Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Paris, if you have referred the case to the judge in charge of the Taj

Reasons must be given for your appeal. This means that you have to explain the reasons that lead you to challenge the decision.

You must file your appeal within a certain time one month by post RAR: titleContent or by declaration at the Registry of the Investigating Chamber.

Who shall I contact

The President of the Investigative Chamber shall take a decision within 6 months upon receipt of your appeal.

You're getting an email RAR: titleContent to inform you of the decision.

In case of refusal, you can appeal by a appeal in cassation only if the decision does not comply with certain formal conditions.

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