Police tribunal (Belgium)

The police tribunal is the lowest Belgian court with criminal jurisdiction, alongside some limited civil jurisdiction, and functions as the traffic court of the country and its trial court for minor offenses. It hears contraventions, minor crimes punishable by at most seven days imprisonment or fines of 1 to 200 euros such as noise violations and minor violence, along with the full range of traffic-related offenses from minor parking violations and driving under the influence to serious crimes such as unintentional vehicular homicide, as well as civil disputes arising from traffic accidents and offenses defined under laws on public intoxication, compulsory education, fishing, railways and local ordinances. Belgium maintains 15 police tribunals across 38 seats in different judicial arrondissements, each chaired by a professional, law-trained police judge sitting alone with the assistance of court clerks and prosecutors. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/