One of the spearheads of this year is the thorough digitization of the police in Brussels. The agents get in their combi access to all sorts of data and databases. They will also be in their vehicle, pv's can prepare. “That should allow for about 80 percent of all cases,” says mayor Close. “Now you must still for to the commissariat, but that makes for headaches. If you are the victim of such a burglary, you will be helped immediately by the team on the spot. The citizen also immediately the result of an intervention. And so we have more agents that we can bet on the field instead of administration.”
The mayors of Brussels and Ixelles, Philippe Close (PS) and Christos Doulkeridis (Ecolo), made that Wednesday, along with police chief Michel Goovaerts known when the budget of the police for this year suggested.