Federal Criminal Police Financial And Economic Fraud Department

The Federal Judicial Police’s specialised judicial police missions focus on supralocal and organised crime which has a destabilising effect on society as well as on offences requiring a specialised approach. Its goal is to find out about the existence of (emerging) forms of crime and report it in time to the proper authorities, to contribute to reducing the likelihood of criminal offences being committed, to conduct investigations or preliminary investigations and to struggle against criminal organisations. The challenge with which the Federal Judicial Police are faced is to identify criminal networks and groups of offenders as well as to destabilize them. They do so by making quality investigations which make it possible to collect elements of proof and identify as many offenders as possible in order to hand them over to the judicial authorities. The federal investigations are conducted mainly at decentralised level in the 27 “Decentralised Judicial Directorates”. The investigators are assisted by the administrative and logistic staff and receive support from the Federal Judicial Police’s central directorates and specialised services. The operational support offered by the Federal Judicial Police’s services consists in specialised judicial expertise and facilities which have been developed within the framework of specialised judicial police missions. The investigations and preliminary investigations are supervised by the competent judicial authorities, i.e the Public Prosecutor and the examining magistrates at district level and the public prosecutors’ department at federal level.