Section d’Enquête et de Contrôle

  • The Section for Enquiry and Control
  • SEC
Identifier
377
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1942-08-05

History

Police aux Questions Juives, a brutal, violent, and corrupt group, was transformed on 1942-08-05 into the Section d’Enquête et de Contrôle, a more neutral name, set up by Pierre Laval. In spite of its supposed respect for legality, the PQJ and the SEC were only the more extreme forms of typical behavior by the parent Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. It engaged in spying on inhabitants, intercepting mail, monitoring telephone calls, preventing music by Jewish composers from being performed, and asking the police to rid the town of Vichy of Jews.

Places

  • Founded in France.

Sources

  • Verdict on Vichy : Power and prejudice in the Vichy France Regime / M. Curtis. – London, 2002. – p. 130