 In the sole department of the Seine, encompassing Paris and its immediate suburbs, nearly 150,000 persons presented themselves to the police offices.The registrations were then centralized by the French police, who created, under the direction of inspector Tulard, a central filing system.According to the Dannecker report, "this filing system subdivided it into files alphabetically classed, Jews with French nationality and foreign Jews having files of different colours, and the files were also classed according to profession, nationality and street" (of residency).