Cheating in the commissioner’s competition. the senior police officer was fired and so was the candidate

Senior civil servant Frédéric Dupuche, who was suspected of passing on the topics of the commissioner’s contest to a candidate who was his mistress, was fired on Friday, November 25, a source familiar with the matter told AFP, confirming information from France Inter. .

The candidate holding the position of commander of the legal center of the National Police General Department was also canceled. Their dismissal wasdecided and signedThis source told AFP last week.

“Fraud in public tender”.

Frédéric Dupuche, who presided over the jury for this professional examination, and the candidate had already been charged and placed under judicial supervision at the end of May.public competition fraud“.

According to sources familiar with the case, this case was revealed during the judicial hearings directed at the candidate. This is how the investigators eavesdropped on the exchanges of this woman and the chairman of the jury board regarding the escape of the subjects.

The candidate was tapped to watch his brother, who has been targeted by a separate investigation in the north and has been difficult to trace due to regular phone chip changes. Prior to this incident, Frédéric Dupuche served in the office of the Director General of the National Police, Frédéric Vo, where he piloted a controversial project to reform the national police and judicial police. He was replaced in these functions by Chief Inspector Gregory-Hugh Fraley.

Before that, Frédéric Dupuche was, in particular, the Director of Local Security for the Township of Paris (DSPAP). He was dismissed after the violence during the demonstrations.yellow vestsin 2019.