Administrative Police Division

Role

The Administrative Police Division has the remit of covering the following areas:

• Administrative investigations
• Naturalisation
• Residency

Organisation and operation

INVESTIGATIONS SECTION

This section is responsible for activities subject to prior authorisation/ declaration:

• Reviewing applications for work permits: administrative investigations, notification of solemn warnings, review of preliminary or legal appeals
• Reviewing applications to carry out regulated professions (in gaming houses, medical and health professions, civil service, insurance agents and brokers, etc.) and, more specifically, private security services for people and property (remit, applicants, license to carry weapons)
• Reviewing applications to carry out a commercial activity
• Reviewing applications for late closing, music and musical performance permits for businesses open to the public (and renewals)
• Reviewing applications to import, purchase, possess and carry firearms (and renewals)
• Dealing with prior declarations relating to ownership of dangerous dogs
• Conducting administrative investigations relating to the staff of suppliers working at sensitive sites (Prince’s Palace, remand prison, etc.) or at cultural or sporting events where there is deemed to be a risk (Grand Prix events, Monaco Yacht Show, etc.)
• Issuing notifications relating to expulsion orders and reviewing appeals against such orders
• Checking police records (antiques and period pieces, weapons, precious metals and chemists)
• Handling miscellaneous requests (address searches for heirs, verification of artist status – moral standing of recipients, applications to change surname, requests for details to be removed from criminal records, etc.)
• Conducting investigations of applicants for consular posts 

RESIDENCY AND CERTIFICATIONS SECTION

This section has two branches:

1 - Inquiries Unit

This unit is responsible for handling residency cases in the strict sense, formal checks of accident at work declarations.

 2 - Residency Check Unit

• Review of applications for residency certificates
• Review of applications for certificates of domicile (and renewals)
• Review of applications for certificates proving habitual residence in the Principality (and renewals)
• Confirmation of residency, in response to an instruction or at the branch’s initiative
• Notification of administrative measures with an adverse impact
• Review of appeals against administrative measures with an adverse impact (withdrawal of permit, reclassification of permit, recognition of a break in residency, etc.)
• Review of requests for reports on residency in the Principality from judicial and administrative authorities, whether local or foreign
• Residency investigations relating to requests for Monegasque criminal records
• Procedure relating to violations of residency by foreign nationals

Legal Reference

Sovereign Ordinance no. 3.153 of 19 March 1964 pertaining to conditions for entry and residence of foreign nationals in the Principality

Sovereign Ordinance no. 8.566 of 28 March 1986 pertaining to certificates of residence  

Act no. 1.155 of 18 December 1992 pertaining to nationality  

Sovereign Ordinance no. 100 of 20 June 2005 implementing the Agreement, between the Principality of Monaco and the European Community and that was signed in Brussels on 7 December 2004, which provides equivalent measures to those of the Council Directive 2003/48/CE concerning the taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments