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Emergency services staged a large-scale simulation exercise in Brussels over the weekend, recreating a hostage situation in the metro to test their response to a potential terror attack.
The Brussels-Capital/Ixelles police zone is seeking to challenge the presiding judge in a trial concerning possible police violence during a demonstration involving about 150 young people in 2021.
Interior minister Bernard Quintin (MR) wants to reduce the total number of local police zones in Belgium from 176 to 60.
The Brussels public prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial inquiry to investigate potential misappropriation of public funds and a "conflict of interest" in regards to a major project aimed at
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government has pulled the plug on an expensive police digitisation project, which was launched to modernise and combine outdated IT systems used by local and federal police forces.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.
