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The city of Halle has announced extra security measures - including an increased police presence - after a series of incidents in the town centre, which its mayor has blamed on people from Brussel
Brussels will receive €7.5 million for new police surveillance cameras, putting its budget on par with that of Antwerp.
The Belgian government has pulled the plug on an expensive police digitisation project, which was launched to modernise and combine outdated IT systems used by local and federal police forces.
Drug use and drug trafficking are on the increase in the capital, according to a recent federal police report on crime figures between 2014 and 2024.
New Year’s Eve in Brussels was relatively calm this year, with 684 police interventions and 72 administrative arrests, half the number compared to the previous year.
Thursday's protest by farmers in Brussels resulted in six administrative arrests, seven judicial arrests, four injured police officers and more than 50 tonnes of rubbish left for the city’s waste
Belgium’s interior minister Bernard Quintin (MR) has authorised local authorities to use house arrest, curfews and fireworks bans to prevent violence on New Year’s Eve.
The mother of Fabian, an 11-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a police vehicle during a chase through Elisabeth Park in Brussels, has met the officer behind the wheel in hopes of finding "
The Marbotin neighbourhood in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek will be designated a "hotspot" in the fight against drug-related violence from January 2026 onwards.
