Employment in the police

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The profession of policeman offers a multitude of possibilities of professions, an evolutionary career and an attractive salary. This is particularly the case within the police zone Brussels Capital Ixelles that, by its size and status, offers a wide range of professions.

The police zone Brussels Capital Ixelles is established by the City of Brussels (including the territories of Laeken, Neder-over-Heembeek and Haren) and of the municipality of Ixelles. With 2.830 policemen and members of the administrative and logistic frame, it is the most important police zone of the country. It protects 200.000 inhabitants and 1.250.000 visitors daily.

Regularly, the police zone Brussels Capital Ixelles welcomes demonstrations sometimes counting up to 300.000 persons. Units are specially formed to guarantee the respect for a peaceful expression, while watching the protection of people and goods.

The Royal Palace, the Castle of Laeken, the Parliament and the neutral Zone, ministries and European institutions, NATO, the Law court, most of the embassies, the King Baudouin Stadium, universities and other important and crowded spots also require a particular protection.

It is thus a specialized police, diversified and trained to face the most complex situations but always having nearness as a priority.

A variety of tasks and jobs

The work of nearness implies the versatility to assure very varied tasks (reception of the population, contacts with the local residents, patrols, preventive and repressive actions). But the zone also has specialized services of support for maintenance of law and order, search, traffic, prevention, youth, criminal analysis, administrative police,...

The logistic dispatching, the services, the online data processing, the finance, the dog handlers, the motorcyclists are only a part of the numerous possibilities of professions within the services of the police.

The policemen and the civil workers work in 17 police stations and district antennas on the territory of 2 municipalities or in one of 4 centralized stations in Laeken, Brussels and Ixelles (police stations).