Commissaire Général Raphaël JUGE

Commissaire Général Raphaël JUGE, from the French National Police, was posted at the embassy of France in the United States of America on September 3rd 2022, as the police and homeland security attaché. Under the authority of both HE the Ambassador of France and the International Security Cooperation Directorate (French Ministry of Interior), he is in charge of the bilateral cooperation between French Ministry of Interior (Police, Gendarmerie, Civil Defence…) and the United States Law Enforcement Agencies

He graduated in 1997 from Paris X University where he read private law. After serving in the Gendarmerie Nationale as a lieutenant in 1997 in order to accomplish his military service, he joined the Higher National Police Academy in Saint-Cyr au Mont d’Or in 1998. He became a commissaire de police after a two year curriculum in this academy which trains the higher body of the French national police.

He held several positions within the Public Safety directorate: deputy chief of Palaiseau police station next to Paris (2000-2002), chief of Basse-Terre police station in Guadeloupe (2002-2006), chief of patrols and public order division in Avignon (2006-2008), chief of a police district in Boulogne-sur-mer (including three cities ; 2012-2015). He was promoted as a commissaire divisionnaire in 2014.

He was posted twice overseas as a police attaché: from 2008 to 2012 in the United Arab Emirates, with a regional competence encompassing the kingdom of Bahrain and the sultanate of Oman, and from 2015 to 2019 in Lebanon

He was director of public safety in the southeast of Paris (Auxerre) from 2019 to 2022, responsible for the three core missions of public safety directorate: patrols and public order 24/7, investigations, and local intelligence branch

He was promoted as a commissaire général on Nov. 1st 2023.