Trainings

Basic training to obtain the DAH certificate

The basic training takes more than 600 hours in four months, spread over three modules.

Traffic Police (minimum 380 hours)

Functional training on the fulfilment of tasks related to traffic:

• Integration within the function of traffic police (place and role of the traffic police, road checks, road users, vehicles, road accidents).
• Study of traffic.
• Study of heavy transport.

Policeman-motorcyclist (minimum 165 hours)

Functional training on the execution of police tasks at the beginning of the policeman-motorcyclist training:

• Theory.
• Proactive driving.
• Riding an official motorbike.
• Escorts.
• First aid.

Driving fast official vehicles in urgent circumstances (minimum 48 hours)

Training to control a fast vehicle:

• Proactive Driving.
• Antiskid.
• Circuit driving

Further training

With regard to training, we provide 63 h 36 of training for the operational motorbike staff, 59 h 36 for the operational CPT staff, 47 h 36 for the members of the technical sections, 36 h 36 for other operational staff and 27 h 36 for the administrative and logistic staff. These are divided as follows:

Shooting (4 hours or 1 hour)

• 4 shooting excercises of 1 hour a year (counting from the shooting line) for the operational motorbike staff, the Patrol and Surveillance Cells and the technical sections.
• 1 exercise of 1 hour a year (real time on the shooting line) for the other members.

Teambuilding activities (7 h 36)

7.36 hours of teambuilding activities a year are planned for each staff member to stimulate group cohesion.

Further training (8 hours)

8 hours a year for each staff member

Informing staff – Staff meetings (20 hours)

10 staff meetings a year (4 hours per meeting) are planned. Each member should take part in 5 meetings at least.
An unavailable capacity should be reckoned with.

Further DAH training (motorcyclists – 24 hours, Patrol and Surveillance Cells – 16 hours and technical sections – 8 hours)

1. Motorcyclists

Extra ‘motorbike’ and ‘car’ training (8 hours only for motorcyclists).

2. Motorcyclists and Patrol and Surveillance Cells

4 professional trainings a year (16 hours) are organized.

Possible themes:

• Changes in traffic regulations.
• Heavy transport.
• Exceptional transports.
• ProVida.
• Dangerous goods transports.
• IT-applications (FEEDIS, PolOffice, immediate collections, …).
• False and forged documents.
• Environment.
• Narcotics.
• Techno prevention (restaurants).
• Illegal immigration

3. Technical teams (8 hours)

Organization of 2 professional trainings a year (8 hours).

Useful training

If staff members ask to receive a training of this type, either the professional DAH training hours or the staff information hours are decreased. As far as language training is concerned, we tend to allow only a part of staff (2 %) at the same time on a yearly basis to this training (Dutch, French, English, German). Only the classes that are attended in one of the three national languages can be taken into consideration.