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Become a cadet of the Republic
Every year, 1000 young people aged 18 to 26can become cadets of the Republic, national police option to prepare for the competition of peacekeepers.
The Republic Cadets program offers a professional training opportunity to young people who have not obtained the baccalaureate. To access it, they just have to take the competition for the public service of peacekeepers.
Admission Requirements for the Peacekeeper Competition
Each year, at the beginning of the school year, you can present to the national police training structure of your department, a application file to integrate the cadets of the Republic.
The recruitment conditions are as follows:
- be between 18 and 26 years old;
- be of French nationality or in the process of naturalization;
- have a clean criminal record;
- be at least 1.60 m tall;
- be in good physical condition and have good eyesight;
- no degree is required.
Recruitment procedure
A first choice of dossier is made, followed by a summons to psychological testsa selection interview before a departmental commission with fitness check and a medical visit.
Training
The cadets of the Republic benefit from a specific work-study training of 12 months combining courses in a professional high school and 7 weeks of practical training in the police services.
At technical Collegethe lessons are French, history-geography, mathematics, computer science and English.
In police training they benefit from:
- theoretical courses on the structures of the National Police, general criminal law, special criminal law and the Highway Code;
- practical courses in sport, shooting and armament, technical and professional intervention gestures (GTPI), self-defense…
Professional status
The cadets of the Republic are contract agents under public law.
They benefit from the status of security assistants for a maximum period of 5 years, non-renewable.
Their monthly education allowance is set at 50% of minimum wage.
Republic Cadet Missions
During their second and third stages, cadets have the right to find certain offenses.
They provide assistance agents and judicial police officers in their missions and must report to them.
Career opportunities
The cadets of the Republic take the internal competition for peacekeepers after one year of preparatory training. The pass rate on the final exam is generally very good.
It is at the end of this year of training that they are led to fully exercise their role as security assistants, regardless of their results in the peacekeeper competitions.