Proximity Policing: The Belgium Experience; La Police de Proximite en Belgique, un Bilan des Connaissances (From Les delemmes de la proximite, P 7-27, 2000, Frederic Ocqueteau, ed.)

• NCJ Number: 186670
• Author(s): Thierry Hendrickx; Sybille Smeets; Cedric Strebelle; Carol Tange
• Date Published: 2000
• Length: 21 pages
• Sale Source: Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Secutite Interieure
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: French
• Country: France
• Note: Revue de sciences sociales, No. 39

Annotation

This paper provides an overview of the community policing experience in Belgium.

Abstract

Community policing, the policing model in vogue over the last few years, has been brought to the fore in Belgium by the Federal Government within the framework of a local urban petty crime prevention policy. The political choices -- more pragmatic than philosophical -- on which the implementation of this policy are based have resulted in various differences of opinion. They reinforce trends that, in many respects, are the hallmark of Belgian policing policy overall and support the choices criminal policy is having to confront, choices made as a matter of emergency in response to the perceived increasing anxiety of the public at large. 20 references