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      2001. godine, Belgijska policija je pokrenula temeljite reforme i kreirala sasvim novu organizaciju. Izveštaj belgijskog parlamenta je policiju oslikao kao nesposobnu, nemarnu i amatersku (nakon katastrofalno vođenih istraga u seriji pedofilskih ubojstava). Nepovjerenje javnosti u policiju je bilo toliko da više nije bilo moguće odugovlačiti reformu. Tri policijske službe: lokalna, nacionalna (Rijkswacht/Gendarmerie) i pravosudna (pod upravom javnog tužioca) su ustupile mjesto integriranoj službi na dva nivoa, lokalni i savezni. Obje ove policije su autonomne i podložne drugim vlastima, ali su snažno povezane u zajedničkoj podršci, obuci, regrutiranju i mobilnosti ljudskih resursa.

     In 2001, the Belgian police underwent a fundamental structural reform that created a completely new police system. A Belgian parliamentary report into a series of pedophile murders accused the police of negligence, amateurism and incompetence in investigating the cases. The loss of public confidence in the police was so great that the whole population deemed the reform indispensable. The three principal police forces, the municipal police, national police (Rijkswacht/Gendarmerie) and judicial police (assigned to the offices of the public prosecutors), gave way to an integrated police service structured on two levels (federal and local). Both forces are autonomous and subordinate to different authorities, but linked in regards to reciprocal support, recruitment, mobility of manpower and common training.