Case Study: Belgian Federal Police achieves unified, reliable nationwide coordination with InterSystems Caché

40,000 Belgian Police Rely on Caché to Coordinate Activities

When sweeping police reforms required Belgium’s federal and 195 local police zones to move to a single IT architecture, the Belgian Federal Police needed a reliable, high-performance database platform that could consolidate systems and migrate large volumes of existing code and data from Informix and Sybase. The challenge was to standardize core data management for thousands of users, ensure failover across all servers, and support new, integrated applications for investigation, HR, planning and more.

They selected InterSystems Caché running on Intel hardware with Red Hat Linux and migrated the Information System for Local Police (ISLP), converting over 99% of 2,700+ stored procedures automatically with vendor support for the remainder. Today roughly 28,000 workstations serving ~30,000 local officers — plus an additional 10,000 federal users — run Caché-based applications with full database failover. The result is faster, more reliable operations, simpler client infrastructure, greater efficiency and a platform that supports new cross-referencing investigative and management applications while lowering long-term costs.

Belgian Federal Police

François Laruelle

ICT Director