The integrated police, structured on two levels, are composed of 2 autonomous elements: the Federal Police and the Local Police, which are connected with each other and perform an integrated police function.
The Federal Police carry out their missions on the whole Belgian territory and are made up of:
- the General Commissioner’s Office,
- 3 general directorates (the General Directorate of Administrative Police, the General Directorate of Judicial Police and the General Directorate of Support and Management),
- central directorates and services based in Brussels and decentralised directorates and services in the different districts.
The General Commissioner’s Office
The General Commissioner is the head of the organisation. He performs specific missions and leads and coordinates three general directorates.
He has his own directorates and departments within the General Commissioner’s Office.
The general directorates
The Federal Police carry out special and supralocal administrative and judicial police missions and support both Local and Federal Police services and units.
The three general directorates and their missions are the following: