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Authorization of data By decree dated July 11, 2012, the Director General of the National Police , the Director General of the National Gendarmerie and the Director General of Customs and Indirect Rights are authorized to implement automated processing of personal data. personnel referred to as “National Narcotics Objectives”. File” (FNOS) whose purpose is to coordinate the action of the services contributing to the repression of drug trafficking by identifying the persons subject to judicial or customs investigations in this matter.
An automated processing system for drug-related crimes: –
The personal data and information contained in the processing concern:
– persons subject to legal proceedings relating to one of the offenses relating to the trafficking of narcotics or poisonous substances provided for and punished by articles 222-34 to 222 -37 and 222-39 of the Penal Code and L. 5432-1 of the Public Health Code;
– to persons subject to a customs investigation relating to one of the offenses provided for and punished by articles 38, 414, 417, 419, 426 and 428 of the customs code, when it comes to narcotics ,
– the identity and professional contact details the contact details of investigators and magistrates are also recorded in the processing (art. 2).
Authorization and implications of OSIRIS: guarantee confidentiality and data protection: –
These data and information are kept for two years from their registration. However, when the persons mentioned above are no longer subject to legal or customs proceedings, the data relating to these persons are deleted (art. 3).
The persons having access, by reason of their attributions and within the limits of the need to know, to this data and information are strictly identified in article 4 of the decree. If article 6 of this same decree provides that, in accordance with the provisions of articles 41 and 42 of the law of January 6, 1978 referred to above, the rights of access and rectification are exercised with the National Commission for Computing and of freedoms, he affirms that the right of opposition provided for in article 38 of the same law does not apply to this processing.
More recently, the decree of January 12, 2016 authorizes the automated processing of personal data called “tool and information system relating to drug offenses” (OSIRIS) (JORF n°15 of January 19, 2016, text n° 28).
The Director General of the National Police, the Director General of the National Gendarmerie and the Prefect of Police are authorized to implement an automated processing of personal data called “tool and information system relating to drug offences” ( OSIRIS) having the following purposes:
1° Assessing the national situation and the activity of the services in terms of the illicit use and trafficking of narcotic products in the context of the fight against these phenomena;
2° The establishment of statistics relating to the facts observed.
