Credit: MSI
On Friday 9 September 2022, Luxembourg's Minister of Internal Security and Minister of Housing, Henri Kox, went to Wiltz in order to, on the one hand, visit the police station to meet the four civil servants-trainees assigned there, and, on the other hand, visit the site of the Living with the Wiltz (Wunnen mat der Wooltz) project.
Minister Kox in meeting with the civil servants-trainees of the Grand Ducal police
In the company of the regional director for the North region, Thierry Jacobs, Minister Kox visited the trainees of the Wiltz police station to discuss their experience during their basic training with the Grand Ducal police.
The trainees were happy with their good integration into the team and expressed their motivation and commitment to police work. The recent police officer recruitment drive withnessed 25% women, at par of trainees at the Wiltz police station, with which the minister is particularly satisfied.
The trip to Wiltz was also an opportunity to discuss the construction project for the new police station in Wiltz, in order to meet the needs of a modern police force and offer police officers the best working conditions.
The field visit is part of Minister Kox's continued desire to be in dialogue with the entire corps of the Grand Ducal police.
The priority of affordable and public housing
Minister Kox's visit to the municipality of Wiltz was also an opportunity to discuss the housing aspect. In this northern city, with more than 7,000 inhabitants, is developed on former industrial wasteland, Living with the Wiltz, one of the largest affordable housing projects in the country. In fifteen years, a new district will be born there welcoming more than 2,000 inhabitants.
The public promoter Housing Fund will develop on 25.5 hectares, according to principles of sustainability, 833 housing units, 70% of which will be intended for affordable rental.
During his visit, Minister Kox said: "Wiltz is an exemplary municipality in the development of affordable housing. Municipalities play an essential role in the creation of housing at decent prices. The increase in the housing stock in public hands is a guarantor of this resilient and sustainable housing, which the country urgently needs".
