For “vigilance,” as the message is titled. On January 15, 2021, the Paris Police Headquarters issued an internal notice to alert all services to the phenomenon of “powerful German limousines registered in Poland, with rental companies as owners”. Some police officers got stuck in the checks, not knowing exactly how to proceed and which legislation was applicable.
Feedback from practice prompted the police headquarters to define the administrative procedures. “Since May 2020, the employees of the local security agency of the greater Paris area (DSPAP) have observed an increase in crimes involving these vehicles,” also points out the memo, which encourages sending to centralize all the controls and refusals detected for this type of des vehicle.
“The facts are often related to street crime or drug trafficking,” continues this internal memo to the police, who order the order to take every precaution in the event of an interception, “in relation to the performance of vehicles and the reckless risk taken.” received from some drivers.
“Since this notice, this phenomenon has increased further”
“But the police usually don’t deal directly with the drivers and can only get by with video surveillance images, which often turn out to be useless because the number of front companies blocks any administrative repression,” says a commissioner from the small crown. For this reason, this phenomenon has continued to increase since this note. »
However, the memorandum specifies how to behave at a roadside check depending on the case: if the driver has hired directly from a foreign company and has an international insurance card issued by the , with his rental agreement and his driver’s license, he can circulate.
However, in the case of sub-letting from a French company and rented from a foreign company, Polish insurance is not sufficient and “the vehicle may be immobilized and confiscated” unless the driver has taken out insurance himself.
“But now the letterbox companies are no longer French, which allows them to drive with the foreign company’s insurance without being able to return to the driver,” the same police commissioner continues.