Additionally, the Federal Police is responsible for patrolling and ensuring the safety of the country's highways.

The FP was created through merging units of the Belgian Gendarmerie and Local/Municipal police forces on January 1, 2001.

[7] The General Commissioner 's Office (Dutch: Commissariaat-Generaal; French: Commissariat-Général; German: Generalkommissariat) incorporates all the top-level central services of the Federal Police.

The General Commissioner's Office also includes decentralized Coordination and Support Directorates (CSD/DCA) located in each judicial district.

This general directorate, abbreviated as DGA (Dutch: Algemene Directie Bestuurlijke Politie; French: Direction Générale Police Administrative; German: Generaldirektion Verwaltungspolizei), is the uniformed branch of the Belgian Federal Police which provides both specialized and supra-local services.

Moreover, the directorate supports the administrative authorities and the Local Police, for instance by supplying specialized staff and equipment (water cannons, etc.)

The group's five helicopters and two planes also search for missing people, suspects, clandestine laboratories, etc.

Some dogs are trained to detect drugs, human remains, hormones or fire accelerants.

The federal police's explosive detector dogs are attached to the CGSU special units.

The General Directorate of the Judicial Police (Dutch: Algemene Directie Gerechtelijke politie; French: Direction Générale Police Judiciaire; German: Generaldirektion Gerichtspolizei) is a large component that operates at both the central level (from its Brussels-based headquarters) and local levels (through local directorates (FGP/DPJ) in each judicial district).

Its purview currently includes Italian Mafia, Asian, Balkan, Russian and Hells Angels crime gangs.

Eighty-five percent of the DGJ's personnel is assigned to 14 local investigation directorates, abbreviated as FGP/PJF.

The organisation and management of these units are entrusted to the judicial directors (DirJud) (Dutch:gerechtelijk directeur/French: directeur judiciaire/German: Justizdirektor).

Although organisation differs from one district to another, sections dealing with drugs, people smuggling, financial and organized crime, vehicle theft rings are the most common.

Each SICAD processes the criminal data from the local and federal police forces to analyze recent cases and events, thus identifying trends and issuing any necessary warnings.

The DGR (Dutch: Algemene directie van het middelenbeheer en de informatie; French: Direction Générale de la gestion des ressources et de l'information; German: Generaldirektion der Verwaltung von Mitteln und Informationen) performs the administrative, resource management, logistical and recruitment support for all federal police units and for local police forces in limited terms.

[10] The Directorate of human resources (DRP) is, among other things, responsible for the recruitment and the training programs for the entire Belgian police.

Thus it ensures the conformity of training quality and guarantees financial equity between police academies.

There are a total of ten (in Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Genk, Asse, Liège, Arlon, Namur, Jurbise and one for the Brussels region which is bilingual).