Jean Paolini

Jean Paolini (3 March 1921 – 8 January 2015) was a French civil servant. He was prefect of the Meuse and prefect of police of Paris.

Biography Jean Dominique Paolini was born on 3 March 1921 in Ghisonaccia, Haute-Corse, Corsica, to a father who was a technical assistant in the public works department of the State. He studied at the Lycée de Bastia, then at the Faculty of Law of Toulouse Capitole University, where he obtained a law degree. but the Prime Minister reacted with the utmost firmness by threatening to make Paolini a chargé de mission in the cabinet of minister Robert Pandraud, who had all the powers that would allow him to head the police prefecture. Mitterrand relented and appointed Paolini prefect of police in Paris in 1986.