This general directorate, called DGA, performs administrative police missions such as traffic policing on the main roads, waterway policing on the North Sea and waterways, railway policing on the railways and in the stations, air policing at the national airport and in the five regional airports, immigration and border control, air and police dog support.

The members of this general directorate also carry out protection missions, such as escorting the transport of valuables or the protection of royal palaces.

Moreover, the directorate supports the administrative authorities and the Local Police, for instance by supplying staff and special equipment (water carts, etc.) for maintenance of law and order missions.

Here are some administrative police services:

Traffic police	Waterway Police	Railway Police	Royal Mounted Escort	Detachment at SHAPE

Royal Motorcycle Escort	Royal Palaces Security Detachment	Air support unit	Dog support unit	Air police	Administrative police operations

 

Composition

The General Directorate of Administrative Police is composed of:

• the Directorate of Administrative Police Operations.


• the detachments in charge of the protection of the royal family members and the royal palaces or in charge of police missions at SHAPE.


• the Directorate of Traffic Police composed of central and decentralised services.


• the Railway policing.


• the Waterway policing.


• the Air policing.


• the Immigration and border control.


• the Specialised Intervention department.


• the Cavalry department.


• the Dog Support Unit.


• the Air Support Unit.


• a secretariat.

 

Missions

The General Directorate of Administrative Police performs the following missions:

• Supervision and operational co-ordination of the administrative police missions of the central services of the Federal Police, including the follow-up of events that could represent a serious or organised threat to public order, as well as the gathering and processing of the administrative data needed for the implementation of the integrated police. In specific cases, the general directorate also establishes necessary international contacts and immediately informs the Directorate of Operational Police Information.
  
  The Minister of the Interior is systematically updated on any topic related to public order.

• Protection of the royal family members and the royal palaces.


• Specialised administrative police missions and the support to those missions (border control, traffic policing, railway policing, waterway policing and air policing as well as police missions at the airports.


• Organisation of the federal intervention reserve, as provided for in article 101, paragraph 2, 3°, of the law of 7th December 1998 organising an integrated police service, structured on two levels, without prejudice to the intervention of this reserve to support judicial police missions.


• Support to decentralised administrative police missions of the administrative coordinating directors.


• Conceptual development of administrative police intervention methods and techniques, for instance through police strategic analyses, as well as cooperation with the police authorities in the setting of a policing policy.  


• Air support.


• Special missions of the dog support unit.


• Police missions at SHAPE.

Special administrative police missions

In accordance with the principles of subsidiarity and specialisation, the General Directorate of Administrative Police co-operates with the Local Police, the other services of the Federal Police and the representatives of the police authorities with a view to:

• Developing a common philosophy to use during maintenance of law and order missions.
• Developing the special police function and the special operational support, i.e. espousing an intervention philosophy, developing the structures and the functioning in maintenance of law and order, traffic, railway, air and Waterway Police matters.

Support to the functioning of the integrated police – support to the Local Police

Within the framework of its support mission to the functioning of the integrated police and to the Local Police, the General Directorate of Administrative Police sees to it that:

• A common information system, especially at district information crossroads level, is implemented.
• Support to conceive and work out local security plans is provided.
• Operational and technical support is provided to the Local Police by the special services.
• Support to the staff is provided within the framework of the "assistance to victims" function.

Participation in the National Security Plan (NSP)

The General Directorate of Administrative Police is in charge of all matters within its sphere of competence, for instance immigration and border control or hooliganism during football matches.