Maritime & River Police (Coastal Branch) Belgium

Context and mission of the organisation: The Maritime and River Police ensures police operations and tasks in the seaport, the main pleasure craft ports and in on the inland waterways that fall under Belgian Jurisdiction

Name NWP Maritime & River Police (Coastal Branch) Belgium
Remarks (optional)
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NWP of
UGhent please contact Hannah Verbeke at imarc@ugent.be
Professional field NWP
General and Specialised Policing functions combined with international cooperation
Organisational structure
  • The Federal Police consist out of three main pillars. Judicial Police Services, Administrative Police services and Support services.
  • The Maritime and River Police is part of the Administrative Police Services, and present in all major Ports of Belgium.
Short description NWP organisation
  • Context and mission of the organisation
    The Maritime and River Police ensures police operations and tasks in the seaport, the main pleasure craft ports and in on the inland waterways that fall under Belgian Jurisdiction
  • Main activities of the organisation
      • Local contact point for port workers, yacht clubs, port authority, port terminal operators, …
      • Reception function + official Schengen Border control post at the EU External Border
      • Intervention and report function on land and water
      • Local investigation service
      • Public disorder management
      • Traffic guidance on land and sea
      • International Maritime Contact point
      • Combatting Cross border Crime
Thematic key words (following the criteria of IMARC dimensions)
  • One or more of IMARC’s three dimensions: border crossing, social justice, security
  • One (or more) themes within these dimensions:
      • Radicalisation & Extremism
      • Human Smuggling
      • Human Trafficking
      • Theory & (research) Methodology
      • Geopolitics
      • Migration
      • Culture & Hybrid Identities
      • EU Law & Policy on Justice and Home Affairs
      • Regulation & Control
Research needs and/or research questions NWP
  • Students are welcome to analyse the organisational structure, the organisational processes, policy and methodology
  • Active participation in European or local projects for improvement of local legislation, procedures and equipment
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
  • other, namely:
    active participation in daily tasks coastal police
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
      • Survey - Interviews
      • Document/archival research
      • Participant observation
  • Networking with all relevant partners of the Maritime and river Police (National and International)
Financial compensation (for IMARC researchers)
No
Selection procedure
No
Which language is required?
  • English
  • Dutch
Certain agreements that need to be respected, such as screening procedures for students and confidentiality of the data, and the like?

Legal secrecy

Application Federal Police, including screening procedure, plus approval of Procureur General

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