Frédéric Péchenard (born 12 March 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French police officer and high civil servant with the Ministry of the Interior.
Péchenard headed the Anti-terrorism section of the Criminal Brigade from 1990 to 1991, after which he served as adjoint chief of the BRI.
On 11 March 2009, he was also made a préfet hors cadre, with a public service mission from the Government.
[1] Following the direction of the French National Police, he is made "Délégué interministeriel à la sécurité routière" (Road traffic safety) on 30 May 2012.
Péchenard teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Police, and gives occasional lectures at the Institute of Criminology of Panthéon-Assas University