Fernand Koekelberg will work as an expert at the Brussels Capital police zone
Fernand Koekelberg, former commissioner general of the federal police, will work for six months as an external legal adviser at the Brussels Capital Ixelles police zone. This is reported by Le Soir and Sudpresse.
The former Commissioner General is expected to take up his new position on January 1, also when he will officially retire.
Fernand Koekelberg, aged 68, was commissioner general of the federal police from 2007 to 2011, where he was praised for his police reform. Subsequently, he held the position of adviser to the federal police, where he held the position of liaison officer between the Walloon Region and the French-speaking community.
“He was chosen because of his expertise, which others do not have,” said Ilse Van de Keere, spokeswoman for the Brussels-Capital-Ixelles zone. La Capitale/Sudinfo.
Discredited
Koekelberg was not undisputed as Commissioner General. In 2011 he was killed by his girlfriend of rape, but was acquitted in 2014. He was then reappointed as strategic and legal adviser to the Federal Council of Police.
He was previously discredited when the promotions of his secretaries stood out. Committee P, which the police are unsure of, found the illegality, but all proceedings against Koekelberg ultimately came to nothing.
eventually Koekelberg himself decided to tender his resignation as Commissioner General after commotion ensued following a trip to Qatar. He had come to the country to lobby for an Interpol employee, but it would have been far too expensive. The Committee concluded that Koekelberg was probably not to blame.