Fichier des personnes recherchées
Fichier des personnes recherchées, or FPR, is a French database of criminals and wanted people run by the French Interior Ministry and used by the national police and other law enforcement agencies in France.About
The FPR began as a paper filing system in 1969, and it included criminals ranging from mafia members to escaped prisoners. The file is also consulted during applications for a national identity card, a passport, a residency card of a visa.
In 1995, the FPR was expanded to include missing people and abducted children.
Each file contains:
- identity of the person sought;
- physical description and photograph if available;
- reason for the search;
- instructions in case a wanted person is discovered.
The FPR contained 620,000 records as of 14 November 2018.Cards
The FPR system includes 21 fiches — subfiles or cards that indicate additional special circumstances, such as:
- E card: wanted by immigration officials '
- IT card: banned in French territory '
- R card: residence in France forbidden '
- TE card: entry into France forbidden '
- AL card: mentally ill '
- M card: underage runaways '
- V card: escaped criminals '
- S card: threat to national security '
- PJ card: wanted by judicial police '
- T card: debtors to the national treasury '
