FranceListe CR, n° 118 · Rights and duties
What must you do when police officers or gendarmes give you orders?
In the exam (French)
Que doit-on faire face aux ordres des policiers ou gendarmes ?
- aYou obey only after calling a lawyerOn obéit seulement après avoir appelé un avocat
- bYou obey only orders given in writingOn n’obéit qu’aux ordres donnés par écrit
- cYou can ignore them if you find them unfairOn peut les ignorer si on les trouve injustes
- dYou must respect them and obey their ordersIl faut les respecter et obéir à leurs ordresCorrect answer
Why?
The police and the gendarmerie are responsible for enforcing the law and public order. You must follow their orders: for example, not stopping at a roadside check is an offence (délit). If you think an officer acted wrongly, you can challenge it afterwards, for example by filing a complaint or by contacting the Defender of Rights (Défenseur des droits).
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Source
Knowledge questions: Ministry of the Interior (DIAN), official lists of knowledge questions CSP and CR, formation-civique.interieur.gouv.fr, Licence Ouverte 2.0, read on 21 October 2026; the official list for naturalisation, immigration.interieur.gouv.fr (DGEF), Licence Ouverte 2.0, read on 25 October 2026. The answer options, the explanations, the situations and the English translation are ours, written with AI; in the exam the questions are in French. This is not a ministry service.
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