Military Operational Reserve | From 17 years | Physically and medically fit volunteers | Contract between 1 and 5 years renewable | Maximum of 60 days per year. If necessary, the duration may be extended to 210 days per year. | Pay as grade varies | Armies and National Gendarmerie |
National Police Operational Reserve | Between 18 and 67 years old | Volunteers, retired police officers and former physically and medically fit security assistants | 1-5 year contract | Maximum of 90 days per year for volunteers and 150 days for retired police officers and former security assistants | Compensation varies by grade and duty station | National Police |
Prison Civil Reserve | Maximum 65 years | Physically and medically fit pensioners | Minimum 1-year contract, renewable | Maximum of 150 days per year | Gross daily earnings of €105 | Prison Service |
Defense and Security Citizens' Reserve | From 17 years | Volunteers approved by the military authority on the basis of their skills, experience or interest in matters relating to national defense | 3-year license renewable | One-off interventions | No compensation or allowance (only travel expenses are compensated) | Armies and National Gendarmerie |
National Education Citizen Reserve | From 18 years | No specific profile | No time limit | One-off interventions | No compensation or allowance (no reimbursement of expenses) | Schools and schools |
Citizens' reserve for territorial cohesion | From 18 years | No specific profile | No time limit | One-off interventions | No compensation or allowance (no reimbursement of expenses) | Administrations, public bodies and associations |
Communal Civil Security Reserve | Unconditional | No specific profile | Commitment of 1 to 5 years renewable | Maximum of 15 working days per year up to 24 hours per week | Compensation may be paid subject to conditions | Municipality |
National Police Citizen Reserve | From 18 years | Volunteers meeting an administrative survey | 1 year renewable | Maximum 24 hours per week for recurring missions or more for one-off missions | No compensation or allowance | National Police |
General Civic Reserve | From 16 years | No specific profile | 1 year renewable | Occasional (one-off or recurring) missions | No compensation or allowance | Public services, communities or non-profit associations |
Sanitary reserve | Unconditional | Health professionals in active employment, unemployed or retired for less than 5 years, students in medicine, odontology, pharmacy or pursuing studies of midwives or medical assistants at the end of studies | 3-year contract, renewable | Maximum 45 cumulative days per calendar year (may exceptionally be increased to 90 days) | The salary of the employed reservist or official shall be maintained. Liberal reservists, unemployed, retired or student reservists receive compensation. | Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Facility (Epru) |
Volunteer firefighters | Between 16 and 56 years (general case). Between 18 and 25 years old in Paris and Marseille. | Medically and physically fit volunteers | 5-year commitment, renewable (general case). In Paris: 10-month, non-renewable commitment. | Occasional (one-off or recurring) missions | Grade-specific allowance | Departmental Fire and Rescue Service |
Fire and rescue services citizen reserves | From 16 years | Volunteers not criminally convicted | Commitment of 1 to 5 years renewable | Occasional (one-off or recurring) missions | No compensation or allowance | Departmental or territorial fire and rescue service |
Youth Judicial Protection Reserve (YJP) | Maximum 75 years | Volunteers and retirees of the civil service, not criminally convicted | 1 year renewable | Maximum of 150 days per year | Daily allowance (3 levels according to expertise) | PJJ Directorate or PJJ Interregional Directorate or PJJ National School |
Reintegration citizen reserve | None | Detained persons | | Volunteer activities | No compensation, vested rights in the citizen engagement accountn | Interregional Directorate of Prison Services |
