Brussels: 6.5% of police officers have Moroccan origins

The evaluation of diversity within police stations in the Belgian capital now has precise indicators. According to information relayed by Le Soir, a university team from ULB and VUB was able to analyze the profiles of 6,750 employees. To achieve this, the researchers anonymously crossed professional ID numbers with Statbel data, thus accessing the parental origin of the civil servants.

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The survey, whose mapping is available on the website www.divpol-bxl.eu, indicates that 70% of the agents have Belgian parents and 14.3% are linked to another European Union country. The researchers specifically focused on the communities strongly established in Brussels. It emerges that 6.5% of police officers, at all levels of the hierarchy, have at least one parent of Moroccan origin, a proportion significantly higher than Turkish (2.3%) or Congolese (0.8%) origins.

However, this statistical analysis faces major methodological limitations. Nawal Bensaïd warns that the administrative data used does not go back beyond direct lineage. "But today, we are at the stage of the third or even the fourth generation of people of immigrant origin in Belgium," the researcher contextualizes.

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Mechanically, this technical restriction erases the traceability of many employees who nevertheless embody this plurality on a daily basis. Although the approach constitutes a first concrete measure of this representation, the specialist nuances the scope of the assessment by stating: "These figures are therefore very interesting, but they underestimate the reality of diversity in the police."