A Brussels inspector spent the night in the cell: “There are evenings where, as a police officer, you cannot set foot”

Two police commissioners and several staff members – the precise number is unknown – participated in this evening. After leaving the nightclub around 3 a.m., all the staff members returned home. All, except a police inspector who wanted to continue the evening alone by going to another “dance bar” type establishment. That’s when the situation escalated.

Obviously too drunk to be able to go inside, she was then rejected. She then rebelled against the leavers who called the police from the Brussels Capital Ixelles police zone. The inspector was apparently hard to reason with and was taken, handcuffed, to the police station where she spent her night in a sobering up cell.

Duty of exemplarity

A situation that is not very good for the staff members present and which is causing internal cringe. “Ethically, going to a libertine type party poses a problem. We know that there are evenings where as a police officer, and even less as a commissioner, you cannot set foot. There is a duty of exemplarity which was not fulfilled even if they were not in service“, indicates a source.

Internal investigation

The information is confirmed by the spokesperson for the Brussels Capital Ixelles police zone and by the spokesperson for the Brussels North police zone Audrey Dereymaeker. “We are aware that there has been an incident involving a member of our staff. We have launched an internal investigation to better understand the context and what happened but as the investigation is ongoing, I cannot make any further comments.” she explains.

According to La DH, one of the two commissioners present in the nightclub is not his first attempt. It would be the same one who was sentenced to a sanction of 20,000 euros for acts of harassment against a colleague during a team building evening in a swingers club just ten years ago when he was brigade leader.

Some colleagues refused to participate. The inspector then criticized this refusal and allegedly made obscene remarks against one of his female colleagues. It was ultimately the police zone which had to pay the amount to the offending police officer. The officer in question has, despite these facts, become a commissioner within the Brussels North police zone last month and should soon be transferred to the federal police.