Study day

Justice and intelligence: the orginal emergence of prison intelligence in France

December 7, 2023

The SDRT-IC3 is organizing a study day on an original organizational emergence within French intelligence: that of prison intelligence. The main aim of the event is to bring together a number of those directly involved in, or following, the gradual reinforcement of prison intelligence; it will seek to cross-reference analyses of a complex phenomenon, whose recent institutional consecration must not mask a gradual and divisive evolution over the long term.

Key questions will focus on :

  • The understanding of intelligence within the Ministry of Justice, between distrust, mistrust and investment 
  • The institutional transformation of intelligence activities within the prison administration, from indifference to consecration 
  • Relations between prison intelligence and other specialized offices and French intelligence services: between ignorance, instrumentalization and genuine cooperation
  • Other Western systems in place

PROGRAM

8:30 am | Welcome coffee

9h | General presentation

  • Dr HDR Gérald ARBOIT (SDRT-IC3), Head of the Intelligence research axis, SDR3C laboratory at Cnam
  • Aurélien HASSIN, SDRT-IC3 doctoral student

9h15 - 10h30 | Justice and Intelligence

  • Floran VADILLO, President of Etudes françaises de renseignement et de cyber

10h45 - 12h15 | Penitentiary and Intelligence

  • Didier LALLEMENT, former Director of the French Prison Service
  • Bruno CLEMENT-PETREMANN, head of the Paris-la-Santé penitentiary center
  • Jean-Marie DELARUE, former Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty

12:15pm - 1:45pm | Lunch

13:45 - 15:30 | The long march to the NPRS

  • Olivier MAUREL, former head of the Bureau du renseignement pénitentiaire - EMS3
  • Olivier REILLON, former Head of EMS3
  • Olivier HUBAC, former deputy head of the Bureau central du renseignement pénitentiaire, then of the Service national du renseignement pénitentiaire

15h45 - 17h | An original trajectory? Comparative elements

  • Thomas RENARD, Director of the International Centre on Counter-Terrorism, The Hague
  • Frank FOLEY, Senior Lecturer at King's College London

18h | Conclusions & perspectives

  • Dr. HDR Gérald ARBOIT (SDRT-IC3)