Section I - Judicial Police Officials ART 33: The following shall be considered judicial police officials; 1° Mayors and their deputies; 2° The Director General of the National Police and his/her deputy; 3° The Director General of the Gendarmerie Nationale and his/her deputy; 4° Officials of the Gendarmerie Nationale currently in active service in the judicial police; 5° Civil servants of the police commissioner corps currently in active service in the judicial police; 6. Police inspectors having at least five years’ seniority appointed as judicial police officials by decree of the Minister of Justice upon the proposal of the Attorney General; 7. Non-commissioned officers of the Gendarmerie having at least 5 years of seniority appointed judicial police officers by a decree from the Minister of Justice upon the proposal of the Attorney General; ART 34: Judicial police officials shall exercise the powers defined in Article 31; they shall receive complaints and reports; they shall carry out preliminary investigations pursuant to the conditions provided for by this Code. In the event of a flagrant felony or misdemeanour, they shall exercise the powers which are conferred upon them by Articles 66 to 78, subject to provisions relating to the requisition of the armed forces. They shall have the right to directly request the support of law enforcement to execute their task. ART 35: Judicial police officials and officers shall be competent within the territorial limits where they perform their usual functions. However, in the event of an emergency, military and gendarmerie officers may operate all over the entire jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance to which they are attached. In any urban constituency divided into police districts, commissioners performing their functions in any of them shall nevertheless have jurisdiction over the entire the constituency. The commissioners may, through a formal rogatory letter, and in the case of a flagrant felony or misdemeanour, carry out searches and seizures in the jurisdiction of the courts next to their own constituency. Judicial police officials of the gendarmerie shall have the same powers within the jurisdiction of the courts next to their own constituency. ART 36: Judicial police officials shall have to immediately inform the Public Prosecutor or the Justice of the Peace with extended jurisdiction of any felonies, misdemeanours and simple offences of which they are aware. As soon as they have completed their operations, they must send directly to him/her the original copy of the report they have drawn up. All documents relating thereto shall be addressed to him/her at the same time. Items seized shall be placed at his/her disposal. The report shall state that its author is a judicial police official. 7