Wanted Persons Index (RFT)
Verified 05 July 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Who is on the Wanted Persons Index (RFT)? What information is recorded? Who can consult them? Here are the main rules to know about the RPF: titleContent.
The RPF: titleContent is one working tool services carrying out judicial and administrative policing tasks.
It is used to search for, monitor, or control certain people at the request of the judicial, administrative, police or gendarmerie authorities.
It may also be consulted during administrative inquiries. For example, for recruitment in certain jobs.
The file is organized in 18 categories.
Each category groups RPF registrants under the same reason.
For example, category S groups RPF registrants to prevent a serious threat to public security or state security if information has been collected about them.
Some decisions of the judge result in the entry in the RPF: titleContent.
Example :
Research mandate, judicial review, suspension or cancelation of the driving license, prohibition on driving certain vehicles, prohibition on entering France, prohibition on stay, prohibition on entry to a stadium, prohibition on leaving the territory, entry in the Fijait: titleContent or at Finnish: titleContent, prohibition of participation in demonstrations on public roads
The administration may apply for registration in the RPF: titleContent in certain situations.
Example :
Person wanted to prevent a serious threat to public security or state security if real information or clues were collected about him, minor forbidden to leave France without the authorization of the 2 parents, runaway minor, person who did not deliver his invalidated driving license on time for balance of points zero, debtor of the public treasury, person who tried to illegally obtain a national identity card or a passport
A person may also be registered with the RPF if they are wanted in connection with a criminal investigation.
Example :
Disappearance of a person in disturbing or suspicious circumstances, discovery of an unidentified dead or living person, search for a fleeing person suspected of committing kidnapping.
The following information may be recorded in the RPF: titleContent :
- On a registered person : civil status, sex, nationality, address, photos, reason for the search, what to do if found...
- On a person who has been the victim of identity theft, if she gave his agreement : marital status, gender, nationality, address, photos...
The personal data and the following information can be stored in the RPF: titleContent :
Personal data on the registered person
- Civil status (name, surname, forename, date and place of birth, parentage), nickname, gender and nationality
- Information to assess the accuracy of the identity data declared by the registered person (confirmed/unconfirmed/spoofed identity or alias)
- Address of last known address
- Place of commission of the facts which, if necessary, justified the listing of the person
- Assessing the person's dangerousness or vulnerability
- Specific, objective and permanent physical signs as a means of signaling persons
- Photographs
- File number at terrorist offenders index or at sex and violent offenders index
- National foreigner identification number
- Driver's license file number (NEPH: titleContent)
Registered Person Information
- Reasons for the search
- Judicial or administrative acts justifying inclusion in the processing or necessary for the execution of the measures required in the case of control
- Authority responsible for the decision which led to the entry of the certificate
- Civil status (name, forename, date and place of birth), nationality and telephone number of holders of parental authority
- If necessary, description and characteristics of objects directly related to that person and capable of locating him (motor vehicle, trailer with an unladen weight of more than 750 kg, caravan, boat, container, airplane, blank official documents which have been stolen, misappropriated or misplaced or which are allegedly such documents but which are forged, firearms)
- What to do if you discover something
Data concerning the identity and travel documents and driving license of the registered person
- Category and title number
- Date, country and issuing authority of the certificate
- Copy of title
- Driver's license number
Personal data and information about a person who has been the victim of identity theft, subject to his or her consent
- Marital status, nickname, sex, nationality, address of last known domicile, specific physical signs, objectives and permanent features, photos
- Identity and travel documents (category and number of the document, date, country and issuing authority, copy of the document)
Report concerning an unknown wanted person
Subject to conditions, paper trail identification number
The RPF: titleContent can save other information under conditions. For example, a person's political opinions).
People, individually designated and specially empowered, may consult the RPF: titleContent, in more or less extensive, including:
- National police personnel
- National gendarmerie personnel
- Customs Officer
- Officer of the Ministry of the Interior, Prefectures and Sub-Prefectures
- Agent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Agent of the National Council for Private Security Activities (CNAPS)
- Officer of the National Travel Data Agency
- National Financial Intelligence Unit Officer
- Officer, National Administrative Security Investigations
- Nuclear Security Command Officer
- Officer, National Travel Authorization Investigation Service (SNEAV)
- Central Arms and Explosives Service (CWS) Officer
- Specialized Intelligence Officer of the Ministry of the Armed Forces
- Officer of the National Penitentiary Intelligence Service (SNRP)
- Some magistrates
- Judicial Services Officer responsible for the application for registration and the follow-up of judicial decisions resulting in registration with the RPF
- Agent of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
- Environment Inspector assigned to theOFB: titleContent
The information recorded in the RPF are communicated to the following persons and services only within the scope of their powers and under conditions :
- International Cooperation Body for the Judicial Police and the foreigner Police Service
- Municipal police officer, at the request of a police officer or gendarme to search for a missing person. Exceptionally, in order to avert a danger to the public, a police officer or gendarme may pass on certain information orally to a municipal police officer.
- Service Agent Finnish: titleContent
- Service Agent Fijait: titleContent
The information is retained until the search is completed or the reason for registration is extinguished.
For example, regarding the registration of a missing person in worrying conditions, the information becomes inaccessible to the consultant as soon as the person is discovered.
You have a right of access, of rectification, erasure and to limitation of your personal information stored in the RPF: titleContent.
However, these rights may be rejected or limited.
The means of exercising such a right shall differ according to the ground for inclusion in the RPF: titleContent :
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General case
Your request can be made online or by post.
Online
You can apply on the website demarches-simplifies.fr:
Request for access to the file of persons sought
You must specify the file or files to which you want access.
A proof of identity (e.g. national identity card, passport) must be attached to your application.
You may receive an answer, by post, in a two-month period.
Nevertheless, the rights access, of rectification, erasure and limiting personal information stored in the RPF: titleContent may be rejected or limited for one of the following reasons:
- Avoid interfering with investigations, investigations and administrative or judicial proceedings
- Avoid harming the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution or execution of criminal offenses
- Protecting public safety and national security
If your request is refused or if you have not received a reply within 2 months, you can apply to the Cnil and/or the administrative court of Paris.
Please note
In case the competent administration has not replied to you, you must send them a proof of sending your request dated 2 months or more.
Refer to the CNIL
The request to the Cnil: titleContent is done by mail.
Attach the following documents to your application:
- Copy of a signed identity document
- Copy of the negative response or, in the absence of a response, copy of your initial application
Who shall I contact
National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil)
By mail
3 Place de Fontenoy
TSA 80715
75334 Paris cedex 07
The CNIL does not receive the public or provide any information on the spot.
By telephone
+33 1 53 73 22 22
Telephone reception open Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 5 pm.
Legal information open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10am to 12pm.
By email
Access to contact form
Apply to the Paris Administrative Court
You can submit your request online via the online service Remedy citizens.
By postal mail
You must send your request by mail to director of the national police or at director of the national gendarmerie.
Who shall I contact
You must specify the file or files to which you want access.
A proof of identity (e.g. national identity card, passport) must be attached to your application.
You can receive a response to your request in a two-month period.
Nevertheless, the rights access, of rectification, erasure and limiting personal information stored in the RPF: titleContent may be rejected or limited for one of the following reasons:
- Avoid interfering with investigations, investigations and administrative or judicial proceedings
- Avoid harming the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution or execution of criminal offenses
- Protecting public safety and national security
If your request is refused or if you have not received a reply within 2 months, you can apply to the Cnil and/or the administrative court of Paris.
Please note
In case the competent administration has not replied to you, you must send them a proof of sending your request dated 2 months or more.
Refer to the CNIL
The request to the Cnil: titleContent is done by mail.
Attach the following documents to your application:
- Copy of a signed identity document
- Copy of the negative response or, in the absence of a response, copy of your initial application
Who shall I contact
National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil)
By mail
3 Place de Fontenoy
TSA 80715
75334 Paris cedex 07
The CNIL does not receive the public or provide any information on the spot.
By telephone
+33 1 53 73 22 22
Telephone reception open Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 5 pm.
Legal information open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10am to 12pm.
By email
Access to contact form
Apply to the Paris Administrative Court
You can submit your request online via the online service Remedy citizens.
Person registered with the RPF for reasons related to State security
The rights of access, rectification and erasure shall be exercised with the Cnil: titleContent for the following:
- Wanted to prevent a serious threat to public security or state security if actual information or evidence has been collected about him or her
- Person subject to certain individual administrative control and supervisory measures
The request to the Cnil: titleContent is done by mail.
Attach a copy of a signed ID to your application.
Who shall I contact
National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil)
By mail
3 Place de Fontenoy
TSA 80715
75334 Paris cedex 07
The CNIL does not receive the public or provide any information on the spot.
By telephone
+33 1 53 73 22 22
Telephone reception open Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 5 pm.
Legal information open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10am to 12pm.
By email
Access to contact form
Please note
It is not possible to object to your registration in the RPF: titleContent, because this file is about public safety.
In particular, Articles 105 to 108, 110, 117 and 118
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