Marlow Police Zone
(Uccle, Watermael-Boitsfort, Auderghem)
- Diversity plan 2025-207 in collaboration with Unia en Actiris, including elements of Training, Internal operations, and Corporate culture
- Vision statement: ‘From polarisation to connection: ‚Winning on the outside starts by beginning on the inside (2022)’, including the recommendations to (further) invest in training and intervision on human rights, diversity, and inclusion, and to implement a zero-tolerance policy on discrimination, racism, and sexism.
- Federal training: ‘Holocaust, Police and Human Rights’ in Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen (link: https://kazernedossin.eu/aanbod-item/opleiding-holocaust-politie-en-mensenrechten/)
- Zonal training:
- Internal training on anti-discrimination, anti-racism, and anti-gender legislation.
- Internal training by ‘Rainbow-house’.
- Internal training E-diversity (e-learning course): completing the training is included in the individual objectives of the preparatory discussions for the biennial evaluation procedure.
- Participation in DUO-day and related experiential internships: in 2024 four people who will complete one or more days of internship.
- The police is visibly present at local events e.g. neighbourhood committees, annual fairs, sport events, cultural events, …
- Visualisation: on Facebook, website, Instagram: taking diversity into account.
- Discrimination referents: Since the circular COL13/2013, it is mandatory to train individuals within each police zone on discrimination issues. They thus serve as contact points in case of discrimination. They raise awareness among other employees about existing legislation and can provide advice on the identification and registration of discrimination and hate crimes.
- Projects to improve the relationship between police and youth:
- Team school: visit schools to provide information on various topics such as traffic, cyberbullying, …
- Participation in Children’s day with the motorcycle unit and the police dog unit.
- At the annual fair, children are allowed to take photos in uniform.
- New project to allow children from kindergarten to primary school to come into contact with the police.
