Belgium: TREVI-Liaison Officer Network
01 March 1992
The Belgian Gendarmerie is currently recruiting TREVI-liaison officers with the intention of posting them to EC countries as well as to non-EC countries. In the EC countries, their task will consist of exchanging information on criminal matters and on upholding public order. They are also supposed to control frontiers looking for illegal immigrants and assisting legal and political authorities. Those officers based outside the EC will also work for other EC members, gathering and exchanging information concerning officially recognized problems for which bilateral accords exist (for example, drug trafficking) or will be established. When an EC country needs information for its own investigation these officers are supposed to gather the information in the country where they are posted. Finally, their tasks include observation of crime trends in the country where they are posted and informing their home country and the other EC countries of these trends so that the EC can evaluate and eventually modify its policy concerning the country.