Criticism of driving behavior Brussels police after a fatal accident: « Commissioners also admit that there is a problem » (inland)
Is there a problem with the driving behavior of (some) Brussels police officers? The Brussels vzw Heroes for Zero believes, after the accident of Monday evening in which an 11-year-old boy was driven to death by a police car. « Their interventions sometimes create more danger than they solve. »
The fatal accident in which an 11-year-old boy was hit by a police car in Ganshoren on Monday evening evokes memories of other incidents from the past years. The recent accident in the Marolles, for example, where a scooter collided with a police car and the driver was killed. The agent turned out to be driving around without a valid driver’s license for two years. Or the accident in which Mehdi Bouda (17) died after being scooped by a police car. Or the chase that cost the lives in 2017 on a young couple on a moped.
« And in addition there are also accidents where people are injured. In any case, it is different of course and it is difficult to generally say what the problem is, but they are high figures anyway, » says Pieter Fannes, founder of Heroes for Zero.
Patrols in parks
With that non -profit organization, he has been working for a road -secure Brussels since 2020, and he also regularly took the driving behavior of the police on the grain. In 2021 still in a report. « We were then received at several police zones and we have given the consideration that their interventions sometimes create more danger than they solve, but I do not feel that a lot has happened with that report. That driving behavior must certainly be viewed closer. »
The accident on Monday evening happened in the Elizabeth Park. “We make ours more often reservations about police cars in those parks. Multiple people and local residents are awake. Many patrols in those parks happen by car and many do not understand why. Sometimes you get situations where a sunny day has a hundred people for a police car. Then I think sometimes: what if that is not happy with the situation? is. «
An example of a police patrol that makes its way through a busy park (the Boudewijnpark in Jette). – © RR
Fannes emphasizes to have a lot of understanding for the difficult task that the police officers have in Brussels, with drug violence and other crime in addition to traffic problems. « It is certainly good that there is regular consultation with the police zones. Informal commissioners sometimes admit that there are problems with the driving behavior of some recruits. I do have the feeling that many agents come to Brussels from Flanders, very hard on solving serious crime. That is why we try to give up as often as possible: this is also a very important topic that many neighborhood homes are also unavoidable with which many neighborhood homes are also very important that » ”” ”” ”” ”” ”” ”” ”” ”” ” »
