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Two police officers were injured on Saturday in a machete attack at a police station in central Charleroi. The attacker shouted, “Allahu Akbar,” according to local police.
In the Brussels commune of Molenbeek on Friday, an unknown number of youth lit a police car on fire.
Belgium's federal police has closed 241 Twitter and Facebook accounts since the establishment of its new Internet Referral Unit (IRU) less than a year ago, says interior minister Jan Jambon in
In early December, 2015, the Brussels Airport police requested additional resources to amp up security measures in the departure hall.
In 2014 and 2015, about 8,000 cases of violence were registered against police officers in Belgium, writes La Libre Belgique.
The Brussels police on Friday were attacked by a group of youth near Place Flagey.
Flemish minister for animal welfare Ben Weyts has announced that Belgium's Animal Welfare service will expand from 19- to 30 full-time jobs, thus becoming a full-fledged animal police.
A police chief of the Brussels-Capital Region last week showed up drunk to a meeting called immediately after the terror attacks on Tuesday morning.
Nine police academies across Belgium on Saturday held a recruitment information day for interested candidates. In total, about 7,000 people attended the event.
