Questionnaire France

I.6 What influence can the prosecution service apply?

To make their power of supervision efficient, the district prosecutors can send general directives to investigators in which they explain the choices and the priorities in the policy on crime. The district prosecutors may also issue directives about specific cases. But strictly speaking, the prosecution service cannot regulate the influx of cases send in by the judicial police; its directives are only of political value and only give indications or guidelines to the judicial policy services on what category of crimes should be focused on (for example, road accidents caused by reckless drivers exceeding speed limits).