According to the current article 8 of the law of July 18th, 2018 about the General Police Inspectorate, the General Inspector and the Deputy General Inspector have the quality of "judiciary police officer" and can, in line with the "Code de procédure pénale", undertake preliminary investigations and can be asked by offices of public prosecution and investigating judges to perform judiciary investigations concerning criminal facts that could have been committed by one or several Police members.
A novel element of the law of July 18th, 2018 is that the judicial authorities can, in the interest of a good justice administration, asked them to undertake judiciary investigations about criminal facts that could have been committed by one or several Police members and one or several other persons acting as co-authors or complices or where are implicated one or several Police members and one or several other persons.