Milquet wants more women in police force

Minister of Home Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Joëlle Milquet has 20 guidelines ready that should attract more women to the police force. Belgium's police corps remains a predominantly male bastion, where only one in three police officers is a woman. Women are especially underrepresented in top positions, with only 3 percent working as police commissioners and 10.8 percent as chief inspectors. Milquet aims to address this imbalance by making a career in the police force more attractive to women, one that provides continuous training and encourages promotion from within.