Taking into account the priorities established in the National Security Plan, the Judicial Police are striving for an ever better control of the scale and impact of organised crime and criminal activities which have a destabilising effect on our society, as well as of supralocal crime and criminal activities – whether linked or not to the former type of crime – which, given their complex nature, require specialised inquiries.

Three strategic goals

1. Fighting against crime

• Report emerging or re-emerging tendencies or specific aspects of particular forms of crime to the proper authorities, to suggest possible measures to them and to inform them immediately of any urgent measure which has already been taken.


• Contribute to reducing the likelihood of criminal offences being committed.


• Identify as many offenders as possible using elements of proof and making more efficient and effective reactive and proactive investigations, so as to enable the judicial authorities to start legal proceedings against those offenders.


• Destabilize the functioning of criminal organisations, in particular those operating in Belgium, in a more effective way through a simultaneous and maximal approach focused mainly on the offenders and their internal relations, their trafficking, their financial means, the means of communication and of transport they use.

2. Supporting investigations

The operational support provided by the general directorate consists in judicial expertise as well as facilities which have been developed within the framework of specialised judicial police missions.

Support to the Local Police is provided at their request, for the purpose of (preliminary) investigations and in the exercise of their basic police missions.

3. Developing expertise

In order to make the performance of specialised judicial police missions even more successful, initiatives are taken to improve the existing expertise, develop it further or gain new expertise.

A shared identity

In order for them to carry out all these missions and legal tasks, our colleagues must have the same vision and values. The Integrated Police lately clarified this vision, which can be summarized in one concept : “the Excellent Police Function”, which is based on three different notions : The police function focusing on community, the intelligence led policing and the optimal management. Every police officer is supposed to take these three basic concepts into account in his/her professional life.

The Federal Judicial Police are totally in favour of this working method and have translated these basic principles into one “identity” with specific features falling perfectly within the scope of the Federal Police’s general vision and identity.

One objective of such identity is to increase the implication of the police members so that they exactly know what the police organisation expects from them. The Federal Judicial Police also inform the authorities and partners about their commitments and ambitions.