Legal framework 1. Law of 7 December 1998 organizing an integrated police service, structured on two levels The police services are organized and structured on two levels: the federal level and the local level, that provide integrated policing together. (…) In accordance with Title III of the present law, the federal police carry out the specialized and supralocal tasks of administrative and judicial police, as well as supporting tasks for the local police services and for the police authorities, taking into account the principles of speciality and subsidiarity, throughout the territory. The Dog Support Unit performs these specialized and supporting tasks by deploying its specialized dog teams. The federal police prepare the national security plan and contribute, with all their general directorates and services, to the implementation of this plan. Without prejudice to article 4, the national security plan contains, with regard to the federal police: 1° the tasks and priorities of the federal police, as determined by the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior, and the way in which they have to be achieved 2° the distribution of the personnel and material means among the general directorates and services. The objectives of the Dog Support Unit are accurately described in the national security plan 2004-2007. 2. Royal Decree of 3 December 2005 concerning the functional trainings of the staff members of the police services 4. The dog handler training 4.1. The training “patrol dog and handler”                                                  4.2. The training “active drugs dog and handler” 4.3. The training “silent drugs dog and handler” 4.4. The training “tracker dog and handler” 4.5. The training “cadaver detection dog and handler” 4.6. The training “hormones dog and handler”          [This training is no longer given.]   4.7. The training “fire detection dog and handler” 4.8. The training “attack dog and handler”                                                 4.9. The training “explosives dog and handler” 4.10. The training “migration control dog and handler” 3. Royal Decree of 14 November 2006 concerning the organization and competences of the federal police The general directorate of administrative police composed of: (…) 6° the Dog Support Unit;  (…) The general directorate of administrative police carries out the following missions: (…) 9° specialized support with regard to police tasks supported by dogs; (…) 4. Ministerial Decree laying down the conditions for the agreement of a police dog This decree determines the conditions for the agreement of a police dog more precisely, and establishes the criteria relating to its character for the administrative agreement, the continuing training and the compulsory training of such a dog.