Short bio
Frank Schuermans is at present the acting chairman of the Supervisory Body for Police Information, (COC, www.controleorgaan.be) which is a parliamentary police oversight body and the law enforcement dedicated Belgian Data Protection Authority, which primarily focuses on police information.
Since the new Belgian Data Protection Law of July 30th 2018 entered into force on September 5th, he exercises this profession full-time. He is also an attorney-general (or senior prosecutor-general) at the Ghent Court of Appeal. He was a former deputy chief of staff, of among other, the Minister of the Interior, the Budget Minister and the Vice Prime Minister. He was also a member of the Standing Police Monitoring Committee, a member of de Belgian Data Protection Authority (until 2019), a member of the Belgian Committee for the National Register (until 2014), a member of the Flemish Data Protection Authority (until 2019) and a member of the Appeal Body for Security Clearances, certificates and advice (until 2019).
He is currently an assistant for penal law and criminal policy at the Ghent University, Faculty of Law, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP). He has taught penal (procedural) law at the University of Brussels (VUB) (2000-2013) and has taught different courses related to police matters/police law/criminal law at the regional Police Academy (Province of Eastern Flanders (1997-2010). He published more than 200 articles and a few books on police matters, data protection law and criminal and police law and was also the author of different reports for the above mentioned bodies of organisations.
Work details
- EMAIL: frank.schuermans@ugent.be or frank.schuermans@controleorgaan.be
- TELEPHONE: +32 473 812 396
- TELEPHONE SECRETARIAT: +32 9 264 69 30
- ADDRESS: Universiteitstraat 4, Ghent, Belgium
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Expertise
- Date protection law with focus on “PIXLES” (Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance)
- Penal law and criminal procedure law
- Police law, police organisations and police information exchange
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Selected publications
- F. SCHUERMANS en D. VANDERMEERSCH, Het strafrechtelijk traject, 2e editie, De justitiële organisatie in woord en beeld, Brussel, Politeia, 2017, 147 p.
- F. SCHUERMANS, ‘Politionele informatiehuishouding en cameragebruik’, Verslagboek XLIIIe post universitaire cyclus Willy Delva, Strafrecht en strafprocesrecht: doel of middel in een veranderende samenleving, Mechelen, Wolters-Kluwer, 2017,703-751 (48 p).
- F. SCHUERMANS, ‘Markante evoluties bij politie- en strafvorderingswerk gezien door de bril van een parketmagistraat’ in “De essentie van politiewerk” (E. DEVROE, A. SCHMIDT, L.G. MOOR en P. PONSAERS Ed.), Cahiers politiestudies, Jaargang 2019/1, Oud-Turnhout, Gompel & Svacina, 217-223.
- SCHUERMANS, De Politionele informatiehuishouding, in, “Blauw, Een handboek over de politie, haar functie, werking en organisatie, Brugge, Vanden Broele, 2023 (S. DE KIMPE en T. VAN DEN BROECK (eds), ISBN 978-90-496-1992-3, 689-742
- SCHUERMANS, “Gezichtsherkenning in de politionele handhaving”, Tijdschrift Privacy en Persoonsgegevens (TPP), 2022/3, 26-27.
- SCHUERMANS, ‘Het Belgische Controleorgaan op de politionele informatie: kennismaking met een gespecialiseerde politionele dataprotectie autoriteit’, Privacy en Informatie(P&I, Nederland), Uitgeverij Paris, Zutphen, jaargang 25, aflevering 6, december 2022, 214-2019.
- SCHUERMANS, ”Filmen van politie-interventies gebeurt niet altijd straffeloos” De Juristenkrant,n° 470, 2023, 3-4