Les flics ont toujours raison is a French crime novel by André Héléna, a writer associated with the postwar tradition of the polar noir. The title points toward the uneasy authority of the police and the social world in which official truth can be imposed as easily as it is questioned. The story moves through a hard-edged urban milieu, where investigations, suspicion, and institutional power collide with ordinary lives caught in danger and compromise. Héléna's prose is lean and direct, emphasizing atmosphere, moral ambiguity, and the pressure of a system that demands obedience while revealing its flaws. This edition preserves a work of mid-century French crime writing for readers interested in police-centered fiction, social tension, and the darker side of civic order.