Vincent Mathy appointed chief of the Nivelles-Genappe police force

By Royal Decree of September 10, 2026, Vincent MATHY is appointed for a five-year term as the chief of the local police for the NIVELLES-GENAPPE police zone. The King’s decision was published in the Belgian Official Gazette on September 25, 2026, under reference C − 2026/007002, page 51508. It places a new leader at the head of police zone no. 5267, which covers the municipalities of Nivelles and Genappe.

The act originates from the Federal Public Service Interior, under the title “Chief of the local police. — Appointment of the mandate.” Like all royal decrees, it is published in the two national languages, with the Dutch and French texts appearing side by side. The essential data of the publication are as follows:

• Official reference: C − 2026/007002
• Act: royal decree of September 10, 2026
• Publication: Belgian Official Gazette of September 25, 2026, page 51508
• Issuing authority: Federal Public Service Interior
• Appointed person: Vincent MATHY
• Position: chief of the local police
• Concerned zone: NIVELLES-GENAPPE police zone (zone no. 5267)
• Term of office: five years

A five-year term for zone 5267

The NIVELLES-GENAPPE police zone is numbered 5267 in the federal nomenclature of police zones. It brings together the municipalities of Nivelles and Genappe, in the province of Walloon Brabant.

The zone appears in the budget tables published by the FPS Interior. The ministerial decree of July 14, 2026, regarding the granting of State financial aid for road safety for 2026, published in the Belgian Official Gazette on July 31, 2026, allocates it an indexed amount of 578,484.57 euros. The total distributed among all police zones amounts to 125,462,258.74 euros.

A series of appointments and renewals

The appointment of Vincent MATHY is part of a series of comparable acts published in recent weeks. The Belgian Official Gazette of August 28, 2026, thus published the royal decree of August 5, 2026, appointing Jean-Louis DALLE as chief of the Bruges police zone, also for a five-year term.

The Belgian Official Gazette of September 16, 2026, for its part, published several mandate renewals decided by royal decrees of August 30, 2026:

• Bart VAN THIENEN, Aarschot police zone, effective November 28, 2026
• Alain BARBIER, Vesdre police zone (Dison/Pepinster/Verviers), effective June 1, 2026
• Michaël JONNIAUX, Montgomery police zone (Etterbeek/Woluwe-Saint-Lambert/Woluwe-Saint-Pierre), effective September 30, 2026
• Jean-Marie DRADIN, Huy police zone, effective September 15, 2026

What the appointment changes for residents

The chief of police leads the local police of the zone. Their appointment for five years therefore establishes, for the entire duration of the mandate, the head of the police force operating in Nivelles and Genappe.

Publication in the Belgian Official Gazette (Moniteur belge) makes the appointment enforceable and brings the information to the public’s attention. Residents of the zone thus have the official reference of the act governing the leadership of their local police, in a context where appointments and renewals of chiefs of police have been following one another at a steady pace during the summer of 2026.

Source: Belgian Official Gazette of September 25, 2026, royal decree of September 10, 2026, reference C − 2026/007002, page 51508.