REORGANIZATION OF THE SERVICE D'ORDRE IN THE PARIS REGION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100180009-4
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 24, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASS'FIUA?'I~g
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COUNTRY France DATE DISTR. 24 November 1948
SUBJECT Reorganization of the Service d'Ordre in the NO. OF PAGES ,
Paris Region
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REPORT NO.
The Service d'e,rdre of the Rassemblement du 1'euple Francais in the Paris
Region was recently re-organized upon the personal instructions of
General do Gaulle. De Gaulle also ordered that the strength of the
units in the Seine-et-Oise be brought up to 14,000 men and in the Seine
Department to 11,000. All male members of the R11F between the ages of
21 and 35 who do not exercise any political or social functions within
the RPF structure will be recruited if possible for the. Service d'Ordre.
2. In the ro-orguniz,--;d headquarters of the Paris Region Service d'Ordre
the following designations have been made:
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Delegate for the Protection of the Region - Colonel fomirtquoPonchardier
Secretary General of the Paris Region Service d'Ordre - Lt. Claude Dumont
Director of Finances, Personnel and Transportation - Lt. Jean Lamoure
")i:rector of Plans and of the Detacherments Anti-Comanunistes - Comnandent
Thamys
Director of "Discipline" (security) Inspector Pistolle 25X1A6a
Director of Administrative Services - Lt. Pierre Demore (previously
reported as Destoree)
Comment:, It will be noted that in general the personnel of
the Paris Regional Command is the same as that reported in
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3. The headquarters of the Paris Regional Conriand were recently transferred
from 81 rue Taitbout and 51 rue do la Victoire to 43 rue do Provence,l'aris,
4a The central card files of,the RPF for all of France are reportedly located
at 7 rue !Adolphe Yvon and are in the charge of a Commandant Pieart,
5. The Service d'Ordre in the Seine-eta-Oise Department is presently organized
as follows:
Department
Director General - Captain Alex Prat (As a Departmental Director Gnnral,
Prat also acts as a deputy to 11onchaardier in the Paris Regional
8 r f?uni zati on)
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Deputy Director General - Lt. Andre Vannes-Jouves
Geor-;raphio Sectors
The Department is divided into seven Geographic Sectors: North, Northeast,
rust, Southeast, South, Southwest, West. Each Geographic Sector is placed
under the command of a Geographic Sector Chief, The Geographic Sector
chief acts as an iaspector.-general for the Operational Sectors and as an
assistant to the Departmental Director-General.
Operational Sectors
Each Geographic Sector is divided into two Operational Sectors. The
Command of each Operational Sector is staffed as follows: a Sector
Chief, an assistant Sector Chief, a dirqotor of transportation, an adminis-
trative director and it liaison agent.
Each Operational Sector is divided into three cantons staffed as follows:
a cantonal leader, an assistant leader, a director of transportation and
a liaison agent. Each canton is divided into a varying number of local
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sections with a local leader, an assistant and a liaison agent,
I n the Seine Department two Director-Generals have bean nomed: a Lt, Pierre
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Collet for the city of Faris and Lt. Maurice Guillaudot for the remainder
of the Department. I
Service d'Ordre Directors are presently planning to drop from the ranks
of the Service d'Ordre al'. members of. the official French police force.
The RPP intends, however, to form a "spe cial brigade" within the police
force made up of ex-Service d'Or&re members. and new recruits. It is
expected that non-RPF meanbsrs will infiltrate the brigade but their reports-
will be limited to accounts of the activities of or:e unit only. 25X1A6a
Corment. In iuly 1948 (see -, paragraph id) source 25X1A2g
sate ha ?onhardier had arranged with the Prefect of Paris Police
and the Surete Plat:?onale that the police who were members of the RPF
Service d'Ordre would not be reprimanded by their superiors and would
be allowed to retain their membership in these groups. However,
Ponohardier agrfed that no more police would be recruited for the Service
d'Ordre. The uew policy of dropping from the Service d'Ordre ranks
members of thy, French police is a result of the Government's present
anti-Gaullis', attitude,)
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