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French beaches usually have a pole to hoist a swimming condition
flag. I do not know if there is some law or regulation prescribing
such an hoisting. I guess there are, since several beaches have an
official first-aid post, whose members are responsible of hoisting
the relevant flag. Those posts are managed by members of the CRS
(Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité), a
corps of mobile police forces created in 1945 and mostly famous for
repression of demonstrations and crowd movements. The first-aid
branches of CRS (they also serve in mountain first-aid) have a better
reputation than those seen in the streets.
The CRS members serving on the beaches have police power and are
allowed to forbid access to the sea when necessary, and reinforce
swimming and yachting rules. They pay special attention to the respect
of the areas dedicated to swimming, windsurfing, yachting, and
motorboating, respectively. Most of their activity is first-aid to
people who have any kind of problems (immersion syncope