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Belgium: Parliament censors report

01 November 1996

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The Belgian parliament has made significant changes to the annual report of the "P" committee, a body set up by parliament to supervise police operations. Passages removed from the report criticise the police services and parliament. Censured passages include criticism of the Delathouwer/Milquet bill intended to improve police accountability . The "P" committee claim that the bill, recently introduced by a senior member of the governing coalition, "rather than attempting to provide a logical and rational restructuring with a view to creating efficient controls...has instead merely led to yet another compromise with the police." The police services are also criticised in passages removed from the report which claim that "there is open resistance to any external control from certain sections of the police services. The motivation for this may be understandable, the methods used however are not. In a period in which the internal "war of the police services" has raged in its fullest fury and policing is experiencing changes of historic proportions, democratic control on the conduct of police services should be allowed to proceed unhindered." De Morgen, 5.10.96

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