Plan to merge Brussels’ six police zones 'ready by summer'

A plan to merge the six Brussels police zones will be finalised before the summer, according to Belgian interior minister Bernard Quintin.“I will present this plan to the government in the coming weeks,” Quintin announced.“My ambition is for it to be finalised before the summer, which will give me the rest of the legislature to do some fine tuning."I want to reassure you: the aim is not to concentrate all the resources on certain areas and abandon the rest. We need to be close to the ground to know what is happening in each commune, in each street."Quintin said that resources will remain for community policing, emphasising that his sole conc…