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France will cover the officers’ airfare and lodging expenses, but not meals, the documents say.
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Foreign police and military personnel from non-European Union member nations are typically forbidden from being armed and acting in their law enforcement capacity on French soil. But former LAPD Chief Michel Moore and other police administrators helped talk the government into temporarily relaxing its rules in order to allow U.S. officers to carry their service weapons. The LAPD said the effort had been in the works since a 2021 visit to France by Moore.
Moore’s trip was one of several to France by department officials in recent years. The visit caused a stir after two members of the then-chief’s security detail detained a French citizen who had been wrongly accused of stealing the cellphone of a senior LAPD official’s wife in Marseille.
Moore later apologized to Marseille officials and the U.S. consul general