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- The work of a federal judicial investigator cannot be reduced to the exercise of a technical function. It may be experienced as a vocation, associated with public service, the pursuit of truth, and contributing to justice. This symbolic dimension gives the profession part of its meaning. Yet contemporary transformations within the police organization are changing the concrete conditions under which this mission is carried out. Performance-based logics, digitalization, information overload, and increasing proceduralization add requirements of management, oversight, and justification to investigative work. Drawing on an immersive placement within the Liège Federal Judicial Police, examined in light of the scientific literature and institutional sources, this dissertation offers a socio-institutional and multidimensional analysis of these transformations. It explores how their combined effects may place investigators’ professional identity under strain by widening the gap between the symbolic value they attach to their mission and what the daily practice of their profession now requires them to produce.