Key Benefits:
The Seal Guard, Minister of Justice, and the Minister of Public Service,
In light of amended Act No. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 on the rights and obligations of civil servants, together with amended Act No. 84-16 of 11 January 1984 on provisions relating to the public service of the State;
In light of amended Order No. 58-696 of 6 August 1958 relating to the special status of personnel in services outside the prison administration;
Having regard to amended Decree No. 66-874 of 21 November 1966 concerning the special status of officials of the external services of the prison administration;
In view of Decree No. 2006-441 of 14 April 2006 on the special status of supervisory personnel,
Stop:
The professional competition for access to the rank of first superintendent of the decented services of the penitentiary administration, as provided for in article 14 of the above-mentioned decree of 14 April 2006, is open by order of the scissor guard, Minister of Justice.
The competition includes an eligibility phase and an admission phase.
The eligibility phase includes the following tests:
Test #1: Resolution, in the form of a note, of a practical case based on a file consisting of one or more professional documents relating to the organization and operation of a penitentiary institution. This test is intended to assess the candidate's ability to identify concrete problems and to provide relevant solutions (duration: 3 hours, coefficient 4).
Test 2: series of questions (20 maximum in the form of a multiple-choice questionnaire and 10 maximum in the form of a short answer) concerning the prison regulations, the program of which is annexed to this Order (duration: 1 h 30, coefficient 2).
The jury determines, in alphabetical order, the list of candidates admitted to the admission test. Only the candidates who have obtained a score of at least 5 out of 20 at each written test can participate in the examination and a total of points fixed by the jury that cannot be less than 60 after applying the coefficients.
The admission phase includes the following test:
- interview with the jury beginning with a presentation by the candidate on his career path, followed by a practical situation to assess his/her knowledge, professional reflexes and coaching skills (total duration: 20 minutes, of which 5 minutes at the most exposed, coefficient 5).
Any rating less than 7 out of 20 is eliminated.
At the end of the admission test, the jury meets to deliberate on the results transmitted by each group of examiners and sets out, after equalization if necessary, in order of merit, the list of candidates admitted to the professional competition.
Only candidates who have obtained a number of points fixed by the jury for all the eligibility and admission examinations may be listed on this list that cannot be less than 110 points.
The jury may then draw up a supplementary list of candidates that it considers fit to be admitted to the professional competition.
If several candidates total the same number of points, priority is given to the one who obtained the best score in the admission test and then, in the event of a new equality, to the one who obtained the best grade in the eligibility test #1.
The jury is appointed by order of the Seal Guard, Minister of Justice.
It includes at least six members, of whom mandatory:
- the director of the prison administration or his representative;
- two category staff Under the Ministry of Justice;
- a commander or a prison captain;
- a prison lieutenant;
- a penitentiary major or a first supervisor.
In the case of a jury composed of more than six members, the proportion of class officials A may not be less than half of the members of that college.
In case of equal sharing of votes, the President's voice is preponderant.
The jury may form a group of examiners, taking into account the number of candidates, for the admission test under the conditions laid down in Article 20 of the Act of 11 January 1984 referred to above.
Correctors, who do not participate in the proceedings of the jury, may be deputy to participate in the correction of the eligibility tests under its control.
The decision of September 22, 1993 on the terms and conditions of organization and the nature of the examinations of the professional competition for access to the rank of first superintendent of the decicent services of the prison administration is repealed.
The director of the prison administration is responsible for the execution of this order, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
A N N E X E
PÉNITENTIAIRE
A. General concepts
A-1. General notes on the history of sentence and prisons.
A-2. Classification of penitentiary institutions and detention regimes, arrest houses, penal institutions: central house, detention centre, semi-liberty centre, centre for arranged sentences.
A-3. Control and inspection of prisons:
- inspection of penitentiary services;
- ministerial inspections (work inspection, general social inspection, general inspection of national education, veterinary services);
- monitoring commission;
- judicial authorities (procurator, judge of enforcement of sentences, judge for children, judge of instruction);
- National Security Ethics Commission;
- parliamentarians;
- Committee on Prevention of Torture.
A-4. Guidance and placement of detainees:
- regional and national orientation;
- National orientation centre;
- shift.
A-5. Different categories of inmates:
- defendants;
- condemned;
- foreigners;
- special regimes of women, minors, young adults, military, women with children;
- particularly monitored.
A-6. Enforcement of sentence:
- procedure for fine-tuning:
- parole;
- punishment reductions;
- fractionation of sentence;
- semi-freedom;
- suspension of sentence, suspension of sentence for medical reasons;
- exit permission, escorted exit authorization;
- outside placements without or under supervision;
- electronic surveillance;
- proposed enforcement of sentences.
A-7. Judicial Registry:
- detention documents;
- nut: definition and importance;
- lock register;
- pretrial detention;
- management of the criminal situation;
- judicial restraint;
- confusion of penalties;
- graces;
- switching;
- amnesty;
- extradition.
A-8. Economic and accounting management of prisons:
- management of the name account (references and expenses): distribution of income and subsidies of inmates;
- concepts on financial and accounting management of institutions.
B. - The insertion
Role and missions of the Prison Service for Inclusion and Probation.
Preparation out.
C. - The security of prisons
C-1. Means:
- regional response and security teams;
- means of restraint;
- means of personnel protection;
- perimeter protection: miradors, round paths, enclosure walls and general security of entrance and detention doors, glacials;
- indoor protection: walking courses, sports fields, workshops, warehouses, grids, cells;
- Use of force and weapons;
- biometrics;
- Vigipirate plan;
- internal operational plan, protection and intervention plan;
- special protection plan;
- Key and sector structure.
C-2. Incident management:
- conduct to be held in case:
- escape;
- fire;
- collective violence;
- rebellion;
- in fact;
- death of an inmate.
C-3. Professional safety techniques:
- general, sectoral and inmate searches;
- staffing controls;
- professional writings: the incident report, the professional report, the observation materials;
- Night service.
C-4. Transfers and extractions:
- medical extraction;
- judicial extraction.
C-5. Isolation procedure and regime.
D. - Daily life in detention: rules of procedure
D-1. Hygiene and medical care:
- unit of consultation and outpatient care;
- Secure interregional hospital unit;
- Regional medical services;
- medical care:
- Somatic hospitalization;
- psychiatric hospitalization;
- Prison administration's obligations with regard to the hygiene of inmates.
D-2. Activities in detention:
- work;
- teaching and vocational training;
- sport;
- cultural activity;
- worship.
D-3. Inmate relations with the outside:
- written correspondence (closed or open);
- permit to visit;
- the execution of parloirs;
- family visiting unit;
- mode of information (television, library...), telephone;
- out of the writings written in prison.
D-4. Individual decisions taken by the prison administration:
Act No. 2000-321 of 12 April 2000 amended on the rights of citizens in their relations with administrations (art. 24).
D-5. Suicide prevention:
- suicide prevention;
- conduct to be held in the event of death of an inmate.
D-6. Discipline:
Disciplinary procedure and regime.
D-7. Computer security.
D-8. Canteen of inmates.
D-9. Indigence.
Done in Paris, September 26, 2006.
The Seal Guard, Minister of Justice,
For the Minister and by delegation:
Deputy Director of Human Resources
and social relations,
A. Triolle
The Minister of Public Service,
For the Minister and by delegation:
By preventing the Director General
Administration and Public Service:
The civil administrator,
P. Coural
