In 2004, French commissary Christian Lambert put forward a project to create a unified command structure for the various anti-terrorist intervention groups in existence in the French National Police.

[1] From 2008, RAID, the Paris BRI-BAC and the various regional units then-known as GIPNs started a training program to adopt common methods.

[1] The FIPN was then founded on 1 December 2009 when Minister of the Interior Brice Hortefeux visited the RAID home base at Bièvres.

[1] The organisation of the FIPN was officially determined by the ministerial decision ("arrêté" of 5 January 2011,[4] notably giving the GIPNs a nationwide jurisdiction.

Its assault teams include physicians, providing for the immediate care of wounded personnel or suspects on the field.