ABSTRACT
CJEE: My enlistment in the National Police, in parallel to my incorporation in the security services, is the natural outcome of decisions taken much earlier. By completing my study at Général Leclerc, a preparatory military high school, I was fated indeed to undertake either a military career or to follow a police curriculum. e vocation of the Leclerc school is twofold: (1) to provide the fundament of an education to young people coming from civil life, and (2) to educate “enfants de troupe” (so-called “troop children,” an appellation reserved to designated young people receiving an education in this school) in anticipation of a future military career or (but less often) a police career.
