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  • Combatting nuisance phenomena in trains, along rails and on platforms.
  • Spreading specialized and railway technical knowledge.
  • Implementing the federal priorities of the national security plan.
  • Performing the basic police function in some stations.
  • Additional missions in cooperation with the local police.
  • The railway police of the federal police (SPC) are responsible for the police function in train and underground stations, in trains and underground trains and along the rails. SPC are responsible for the reception in the railway stations of Brussels-South, Namur, Liège, Charleroi, Mons, Leuven, Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges and carry out patrols in the Brussels underground.
  • Surveillance in trains and stations
  • Intervention in case of incidents and accidents
  • Escorting of large groups of people travelling by train or underground
  • Control of the goods transport by rail
  • Border check at the arrival and departure of the Eurostar trains
  • Combatting of insecurity phenomena on and along the rails, such as drugs, aggression, theft, human trade and environment
  • Specialized assistance to other police services
  • Training
  • Control ‘Prohibition cycling‘ in the railway stations
  • Control ‘Smoking Ban’ In The Railway Stations
  • Security in the metro of Brussels subway
  • Individual accidents
  • Illegal dumping
  • Vandalism - Graffiti
  • Copper theft
  • Safety at level crossings
  • Safety transports of dangerous goods rid
  • Maintaining public order
  • Patrol with police dog

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