PARIS POLICE HEADQUARTERS (REC.) “whose behaviour reveals obvious mental disorders” (article L. 3213-2 of this Code). Yet this specific competence cannot provide grounds for the existence of the psychiatric infirmary of the Paris police headquarters. Indeed, the same would be true if the provisional measures were taken in ordinary hospitals, covered by article L.  3222-1 of the Public Health Code. In other words, while the establishment derives from the competence attributed to the Chief of Police in 1800, the retention of this competence does not require that the establishment maintain its current form. It is clearly not the role of the contrôle général to issue an opinion on the choice of administrative organisation. However, it is concerned with the question of whether this organisation provides the sufficient guarantees as aforementioned. As things stand, this would not appear to be the case. On the other hand, the psychiatric infirmary of the Paris police headquarters does not have any autonomy. It is a service of one of the departments of this prefecture (the department of transport and public protection), in particular falls under the scope of the health and environmental protection division. Its resources are provided through the intervention of the police headquarters. Assuming that the doctors who work there are not under the direct authority of the Paris police headquarters, as the Minister is careful to reiterate in his observations (no more than, concerning the practice of medicine, hospital practitioners are under the authority of hospital management), they are paid by it, the material conditions of their employment and their career management depend on it. The establishment therefore falls outside the realm of a hospital authorised to receive mental health patients. Consequently, the provisions relating to the rights of persons admitted to hospital do not apply (for example the “rights of the individual” set forth in a preliminary chapter of the public health code) and no health authority has the power to verify the content and modalities of care. On the other hand, although a departmental commission for psychiatric hospitalisation, responsible for dealing with all measures of hospitalisation without consent and visiting the establishments to hear patients, exists in Paris as in the other departments, its members are appointed by the Chief of Police in the capital (article R. 3223-1 of 75