Dominique Bourgnon de Layre
Lieutenant-Commander, ALPACI
- Studied public law and philosphy of law in Paris la Sorbonne University
- Joined the navy in 2003
- Watch officer and chief of the administration service on several frigates (Jeanne d’Arc, Bougainville, Courbet) deployed in indian ocean and eastern mediterranean ;
- Joined the strategic level at France’s joint operations headquarters in Paris and worked on international relations (horn of africa – counter piracy – Afghanistan -Libya) 2008-2014
- Deployed as legal advisor for the EU/OHQ Atalanta (counter-piracy horn of Africa) in London - 2015
- Worked as a law expert for the joint staff in Paris 2015-2017
- Joined the military staff college - 2017
- Assigned at the law of the sea and ops law office of the navy headquarters in Paris 2018 – 2020 (where I was responsible for providing legal council to the strategic level for the deployments of navy units (China sea/ North Korea, eastern mediterranean sea, black sea, etc).
- Since august 2020, chief of the at sea law enforcement office – French pacific command (ALPACI) – French Polynesia
Responsible for the « coast guards » function – coordinatiing all the services and agencies in French Polynesia for fishing surveyance, environnement protection, navigation security issues, and at sea police operations (drug trafficking).
Lt Cdr Dominique Bourgnon de Layre is 42, married and have two young boys.