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Belgium: Over 400,000 people on file

01 March 1995

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The Belgian government has admitted that the security and police forces have nearly 400,000 people on file as being "suspects", or nearly 5% of the total population. This was revealed in a written answer to the Belgian Parliament. The figures show that in April 1994 the Belgian police had a total of 443,653 people on file. This represents a 20% drop from the total in 1992, when 541,406 records were shown. The population of Belgium as of 1990 was 9.8 million people.

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