Belgium lwa wants secret service direct access to politiedatabank

The Belgian Minister of the Interior Jo lwa lle Milquet wants later this year a bill so that the Security of the state, the Belgian civil intelligence service, direct access to the database of the police.

The police in Belgium can take all the information from its large database to share with intelligence agencies, but state Security would have direct access to the National General Database, find the minister. The precise details of the access have to have in the government are discussed. In the database the data of persons and companies who are ever in a process-verbal are linked to a possible crime. The intention is part of a larger plan for the ANG else to use, according to The Time.

So says the minister also that data in the database after a certain period of time to be erased, because it is now difficult to get data from the database to be deleted. That only happens when someone dies, or to the so-called privacy commission get. According to the chairman of the Permanent Commission of the Local Police, Jean-Marie Brabant, is in conflict with European rules that it is not done automatically.

Another plan of the minister is to ensure the quality of the database improve by more accurate criteria to enter data. The ANG is, namely, not always reliable. According to Gert Cockx of the police union NSPV, most police officers are hesitant in regards to the accuracy of the information.

According to an anonymous politiedirecteur the database has reached its maximum limit because it is in the course of the years, each time it is extended with new data if, for example, number plates and mobile phone numbers. It is also not possible to put links to establish between the defendant companies.

Finally, the structure of the database is to be improved. So it must be possible to within the ANG specific databases for specific purposes, such as a database for stolen works of art. Previous initiatives to create a specific database to establish, often by police officers themselves, came to nothing.