

- Full time member/director of the Belgian Supervisory Body for Police Information (COC, Data Protection Authority for police and certain law enforcement matters)
- Member of the Belgian Data Protection Authority between 2004 and 2019
- Attorney-general (senior deputy prosecutor-general) at the Ghent (Belgium) Court of Appeal
- Teaching assistant and researcher at Ghent University, Law Faculty, ‘Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy’ (IRCP) and the Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Research Platform on ‘Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement & Surveillance’
- Published more than 200 articles and a few books on police matters, data protection law and criminal and police law
- Author of multiple reports for the Standing Police Monitoring Committee, the Belgian DPA and the Belgian Supervisory Body for Police Information
What does Frank do?
Frank Schuermans is currently a full time member/director of the Belgian Supervisory Body for Police Information (COC, Data Protection Authority for police and certain law enforcement matters).
Frank at the Data Protection Institute
- Member of the Belgian Supervisory Body for Police Information (6 years)
- Public prosecutor at the Court of first instance and Court of Appeal Ghent (B) (30 years)
- Member of the standing police monitoring committee (Committee P) (5 years)
- Political experience (justice, home affairs and budget) as a deputy chief of staff to the Minister of the Interior and Vice-prime Minister (11 years)
- Academic experience (VUB and Ghent University): penal (procedure) law, data protection& privacy law, police law (18 years
- Member of the former Belgian Data Protection Authority (13 years)
- Member of the Flemish Data Protection Authority (9 years)
- Member of the Appeal Body for Security Clearances, certificates and advice (10 years)
“Technical expertise remains the prerequisite for optimal functioning combined with a lot of commons sense.”
Frank as a teacher
Make sure that participants to the seminar come out of the training better equipped to deal with their day to day issues and problems and constantly striking that balance between data protection and operational police necessities
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