{"id":14268,"date":"2026-02-02T18:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/who-are-we\/composition\/le-service-denquetes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:03:05","slug":"investigation-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/the-committee\/composition\/investigation-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1770035800965{margin-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #276475 !important;}&#8221; el_id=&#8221;TITULO&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;TITULOSUPERIORPAGINA&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">THE COMMITTEE<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<style>.thegem-te-post-breadcrumbs.thegem-custom-6a2737d244cc82143 .post-breadcrumbs {justify-content: left; text-align: left;}.thegem-te-post-breadcrumbs.thegem-custom-6a2737d244cc82143 .post-breadcrumbs ul {justify-content: left; text-align: left;}.thegem-te-post-breadcrumbs.thegem-custom-6a2737d244cc82143 .post-breadcrumbs ul li {color: #FFFFFF;}.thegem-te-post-breadcrumbs.thegem-custom-6a2737d244cc82143 .post-breadcrumbs ul li a {color: #FFFFFF;}.thegem-te-post-breadcrumbs.thegem-custom-6a2737d244cc82143 .post-breadcrumbs ul li a:hover {color: #FFFFFF;}.thegem-te-post-breadcrumbs.thegem-custom-6a2737d244cc82143 .post-breadcrumbs ul li:last-child {color: #FFFFFF;}<\/style><div class=\"thegem-te-post-breadcrumbs thegem-custom-6a2737d244cc82143\"> <div class=\"post-breadcrumbs\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- .breadcrumbs --><\/div> <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1770720379694{margin-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #3E8E8C !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;SUBTITULO&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">COMPOSITION<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1770056596184{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Committee R\/I is a collegial body made up of three members (a Chair and two members). 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On its own initiative or at the request of judicial authorities, it investigates members of the reviewed services who are suspected of having committed a felony or misdemeanour.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation service currently consists of <strong>10 commissioner-auditors<\/strong> who all hold the capacity of judicial police officer, assistant public prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frederic Verspeelt<\/strong> is Head of the Investigation service.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;132px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1770035800965{margin-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #276475 !important;}&#8221; el_id=&#8221;TITULO&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;TITULOSUPERIORPAGINA&#8221;] THE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2541,"parent":14262,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14268","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14268"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15032,"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14268\/revisions\/15032"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comiteri.mediartia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}