Career
He worked as a policeman, police inspector and commissioner in his native Marseille for many years. He later wrote an autobiography about his career as a police officer and played himself in a television series based on his life. He created the first GIPN. He was nicknamed "le Chinois" ("the Chinese") despite his Vietnamese origins.
Georges Nguyen Van Loc died of a heart attack in Cannes, France on 7 December 2008, aged 75.
