MPs Laurent Mosar and Gilles Roth addressed their parliamentary question to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice, and the Minister for Internal Security, seeking clarity on the issue.
The MPs cited a retired police officer's publication which has been circulating on social media as the basis for their parliamentary question on Sunday. The post in question sees the officer confirm that covert police files do exist and that the police use these files as the basis of other reports. The former police officer specifies that the police mainly use these files for pardons or investigations requested by municipal authorities as a means to establish a type of morality certificate.
The response to the first parliamentary question, which took place shortly after the news broke that a young man was unable to work for the public prosecutor's office because of his covert police file, saw ministers deny the existence of such files or a similar data bank used by the police. Given the retired police officer's testimony, Mosar and Roth have insisted on further clarity in order to determine whether these files do exist and whether the police are operating legally in this.
Finally, the MPs also enquired as to whether the concept of secret police files is compatible with data protection legislation and whether the subjects of such enquiries are informed of these reports.
