Flanders News : More complaints against the police
I heard on the TV news that many people complained at the inefficiency and "leniency" (read "laziness") of the police. Many people think that too often fail to intervene or take appropriate actions to solve crimes.
Flanders News said:Last year, the police watchdog, Committee P, received over 2,200 complaints filed against the police in general or against individual policemen. That's an average of 6 cases each day. The number is 16% up on 2004 and it's the fifth successive year that the complaints are up.
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A vast majority of complaints concerns local police, with only a small minority of complaints involving federal police.
According to Walter Peeters of the Committee P, most grievances have to do with the police failing to intervene, not acting neutrally or treating people in a different way.
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About 1 in 8 complaints turn out to have a real ground.
Last year, 150 police officers were eventually convicted by a court.
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I heard on the TV news that many people complained at the inefficiency and "leniency" (read "laziness") of the police. Many people think that too often fail to intervene or take appropriate actions to solve crimes.