Section II - Judicial Police Officers ART 37 Judicial police officers shall refer to civil servants in active police departments and gendarmes who do not have the status of judicial police officials. ART 38 Judicial police officers shall be charged with: 1 ° assisting judicial police officials in the performance of their duties; 2 ° reporting, to their hierarchical superiors, any crime or misdemeanour of which they are aware; 3 ° establishing, in conformity with the orders of their superiors or the competent legal authorities, violations of criminal law and gathering all information in order to find the perpetrators of these offences, all within the framework and in the manner provided for by special laws applicable to them. Section III - Civil Servants and Agents Vested with Judicial Police Powers ART 39: Civil servants and agents attached to administrative and public departments, and to whom special laws grant certain judicial police powers shall exercise these powers under the conditions and within the limits laid down by this law. ART 40: In the case of felonies and misdemeanours against the security of the State and only if there is an emergency, the High Commissioners of regions and the district of Bamako may personally carry out all necessary acts to ascertain the specified felonies or misdemeanours or request, in writing, the assistance of the competent judicial police officers to this effect. They shall forthwith inform the Public Prosecutor of the competent court and within forty -eight hours of the commencement of operations, transfer the case to this authority by transmitting the documents to him/her, as well as all the arrested persons, on pain of nullity of the procedure. Any judicial police officer who has received a requisition in accordance with the provisions of this article shall be obliged to give notice thereof without delay to the Public Prosecutor of the competent court. ART 41: Sworn engineers and technical agents of the water resources and forestry department shall investigate and report on violations of water resources, forestry, wildlife and fishing regulations. ART 42: The civil servants and agents referred to in the preceding Article shall also be competent to establish violations of regulations relating to weaponry. They may seize weapons and ammunition that are improperly held or used to commit an offence in their jurisdiction. ART 43: The sworn civil servants and technical agents of the water resources, forestry and wildlife administration shall guard moved objects to the places where they have been taken, and sequester them. They may enter depots, sawmills and construction sites to perform their monitoring duties therein. They may enter houses, courtyards and enclosures in uniform and openly, accompanied by a representative of the police force or the community, who signs or fingerprints the report on the operation he/she witnessed. They shall have free access to river quays, railway stations and railway tracks. They may visit all kinds of trains and boats. ART 44: They shall bring before a judicial police official any person they find committing a flagrante delicto misdemeanour, or whose identity they are not sure of. 8