Overview
- Rail and metro security units, whose new remit took effect Monday after a decree in the official journal, now have expanded authority across stations and trains.
- Agents can conduct bag checks and pat-downs, search belongings, and seize weapons or other dangerous items discovered during those checks.
- They may patrol just outside stations and stops, bar entry to people deemed disruptive or risky, and confiscate goods tied to illegal street vending near the networks.
- Private security working in transport can now order people who disrupt public order to leave vehicles or stations.
- About 4,000 internal security staff from SNCF’s Suge and RATP’s GPSR fall under the decree, which also sets training rules for their expanded roles.