Federal Judicial Police – DJSOC Environmental Crime Service

• Mission(s) of the Unit:
  • • Making strategic analyses to conceptualise the phenomena;
    • Giving advice and ensuring the co-ordination for the benefit of the investigators;
    • Developing expert data bases;
    • Providing specific expertise and support to the police services in the field;
    • Ensuring information control and exploitation;
    • Consolidating the police “environmental network”;
    • Providing specific training for members of the “environmental network”;
    • Promoting an integrated police method to tackle the phenomena;
    • Initiating and let carry out proactive and reactive investigations ;
    • Concluding “skeleton agreements”  (Police / Environmental Authorities);
    • Representing the police in panels that deal with environmental protection  (INTERPOL, EUROPOL (EnviCrimeNet), EU, ...).

• One of IMARC’s three dimensions: security
• One (or more) themes within these dimensions:
  • • Regulation & Control
• Environmental Crime

How to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of  environmental legislation.

How to improve information exchange between the environmental enforcers (administrative, judicial) on national and international level.

How to improve the multidisciplinary approach to environmental crime.

How to achieve good arrangements (Memoranda of Understanding) between the various enforcement services.

Furthermore, students can analyse the organisational structure and organisational processes.

• independent conduct of research
• access to data/documents
• other, namely:
  A case study, leaving a number of judicial environmental files into which the illegally acquired benefits were calculated. For each dossier, it must be determined which criteria the investigators (environmental administration, police) have used to quantify the amount of illegal conditions. Next, the motives of the OM must be analysed. Finally, the argument of the judge at first instance and possibly in the appeal is of importance. These facts should then lead to a number of conclusions concerning the effective use of the foreclosure of illegally acquired benefits as well as concerning the effectiveness of the foreclosure (final amount, foreclosure with delay, arguments pro and contra, ...). Interviews with a number of key figures (investigator, OM and judge) can be of added value.

Yes, namely:

• Data collection

Yes:

• Procedure in use for the Belgian Federal Police (known to the UGhent)

• Dutch