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Several officers from the Brussels-South police zone called in sick on Monday in protest at working conditions that they have called unacceptable.
Extinction Rebellion climate activists who were detained by Belgian police in 2019 will receive compensation after a court ruled that their arrest was unlawful.
Police officers from the Brussels-Capital-Ixelles area will use bodycams from September, a report revealed on Tuesday.
The Belgian interior and justice ministers have decided to punish André Desenfants, the second highest ranking officer in the federal police, in the ongoing investigation into the death of Slovak
The federal police have not used lie detector technology for more than a year, due to a shortage of specialists as well as a lack of proper legislation.
According to a newspaper report published on Tuesday, 3,112 complaints were filed against police officers in 2020. This is almost 500 more than the previous year.
The accuracy and precision of police databases in Belgium still leave much to be desired, the Police Information Control Body (COC) noted in its annual report published on Monday.
In Belgium, a total of 759 cases of disappearances are unsolved.
A reflection exercise designed to begin the process of reforming the Belgian police force kicked off in Brussels on Tuesday.
