History

 2001
The Belgian Police underwent a fundamenta
structural reform that created the Integrated
Police Service (IPS) consists of the Federal
Police and Local Police. To end the
overlapping jurisdictions, inter- force rivalry
weak monitoring systems, and corruption
resulted in series of mismanaged cases.
The three former police forces:

 The municipal police

 The national law enforcement service

(Rijkswacht/Gendemerie)

 The judicial police

 Federal police
 is in charge of both specialized and supralocal law enforcement operations
and specialized criminal investigation operations. The force is also tasked with
delivering support to the local police forces. The federal police consists of
approximately 12,300 personnel members (civilian and operational staff).
The federal police is led by a general commissioner, a senior officer who
holds the rank of chief superintendent. He or she heads the general
commissioner's office. This office is responsible for management, strategy and
policy of the federal police; ensuring the functioning of the integrated police (by
coordinating with local police forces); coordinating and supporting the federal
police units; internal and external communication and international cooperation. 
 It is composed of the:

 directorate of police strategy

 directorate of international police cooperation
 directorate of communication
 directorate of well-being
 13 decentralized coordination and support directorates (CSD) (spread over the 12 judicial
districtcts)intervention corps (CIK) (spread over the 13 CSD's)
 Local police

 is made up of 188 police forces constituted from the former communal and gendarmerie brigades. 50 police
forces cover the territory of one municipality (one-city zone) and 146 cover more than one municipality (multi-
city zone). The local police can be compared to municipal policeforces.
 Each local police chief is responsible for the execution of local law enforcement policy and ensures the
management, organization and distribution of missions in the local police force. She or he works under the
authority of the mayor in one-city zones, or under a police board composed of all the mayors from the different
municipalities in a multi-city police zone.
 Its philosophy envisions a global and integrated approach to security based on maximum visibility focusing
police activities on a limited area, which should optimize contact between the police and the population. It aims
to restore public confidence in the police force and of improve the objective and subjective feeling of security in
communities.
Six Basic Function of Local Police
 Community Policing
 Responsiveness
 The intervention function
 The victim unit
 The local criminal investigation unit
 Maintaining public order