Federal Police – Directorate International Police Cooperation

The impact of civil crisis management initiatives on the objectives of the UN and EU projects. The overlap and complementarity of the operations of Europol and Interpol, towards a future-oriented cooperation? What about the controls at our external borders concerning police?

Name NWP Federal Police – Directorate International Police Cooperation
Remarks (optional)
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NWP of
UGhent please contact Hannah Verbeke at imarc@ugent.be
Professional field NWP
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Organisational structure
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Short description NWP organisation
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Thematic key words (following the criteria of IMARC dimensions)
  • One or more of IMARC’s three dimensions: border crossing &security
  • One (or more) themes within these dimensions:
      • Radicalisation & Extremism
      • Human Smuggling
      • Human Trafficking
      • Geopolitics
      • Migration
      • EU Law & Policy on Justice and Home Affairs
      • Regulation & Control
Research needs and/or research questions NWP

The impact of civil crisis management initiatives on the objectives of the UN and EU projects
The overlap and complementarity of the operations of Europol and Interpol, towards a future-oriented cooperation?
What about the controls at our external borders concerning police?
IPS / International Police Cooperation 2025?
The future for international police cooperation : pushing  (ie to Europol and Interpol) information or pulling (i.e the project ADEP EPRIS)
Further, students can analyse organisational structure, organisational processes, policy and methodology

Offer NWP: the role of the IMARC researcher
  • independent conduct of research
  • participant observation, fieldwork
  • access to data/documents
  • possibility to consult experts and specialists
  • actively contributing to the development of policy and/or projects
  • internship/traineeship
  • administrative tasks
Number of IMARC researchers that can be placed at NWP per academic year
1 or 2 per year
Is it possible for IMARC researchers to have other forms of research collaboration and data collection (other than internship)?

Yes, namely:

  • Data collection
Financial compensation (for IMARC researchers)
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Selection procedure

Yes:

  • submit a request to a central police authority (management of staff)

Which language is required?
  • Dutch 
  • French 
Certain agreements that need to be respected, such as screening procedures for students and confidentiality of the data, and the like?

Yes, a procedure for professional secrecy by screening and after signing of the confidentiality obligation in accordance with Art 458 (Belgian Criminal Code). Next to that, there is a procedure to clear credentials

Possible start date / end date internship and/or other research collaboration
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