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Dutch incarceration rate dropped 44% in 5 years
In 2010 there were 75 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants in the Netherlands. This is down 44% from 134 prisoners in 2005, according to a study by the Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of...
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International outrage for Dutch hack back plan
More than 40 civil rights organisations and security experts from around the world are said to be ‘gravely concerned’ about a Dutch proposal to break into foreign computers and search and delete data....
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Police accused of brokering a wedding to save a girl’s family’s honour
Dutch police in Amsterdam Zuidoost have been accused of acting as ‘matchmakers’ for two underaged Dutch Muslims of Pakistani and Hindustani background. Together with Fier Fryslan, a Friesland-based...
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Dutch criminals may get their bullets on the open market
Even though gun possession is strictly controlled in the Netherlands, it seems criminals may still get their ammunition via largely legal channels. In 2012 Marsha de Vries of the University of Twente...
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Policeman caught on telly driving dangerously, gets fined by colleague
“The police in this country are underpaid and often have a serious attitude problem,” I heard recently. After having to call 112 (the Dutch 911) for the firefighters to deal with a short circuit in my...
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Police officer sews Twitter handle onto uniform, forced to remove it
Sergeant Fred Stork is a beat cop in Eindhoven and is also on Twitter. He thought it would be fun to sew his Twitter handle, @brigadierSTRYPi onto his uniform, but after a reporter tweeted about needle...
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Shoplifter leaves with photos instead of tablet
Since last week the Amsterdam police are looking for a shoplifter who changed his mind while robbing a Kruidvat drugstore located in the De Pijp district. Initially the man tried to steal a tablet...
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The Netherlands has finally become a police state
Rhetoric? Offensive sloganeering? Have I finally gone off the deep end? No, I am just getting a pun in there. Volkskrant reported last Saturday that the biggest employer in the Netherlands is the...
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Drunk Segway operator loses driving license
A 45-year-old man from Ootmarsum in the province of Twente lost his driving license yesterday after getting caught Segwaying under the influence. According to the local police a breathalyser test...
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Woman trolls offline, bad mistake!
For the past three years citizens of Koewacht, a village straddling the Dutch-Belgian border, has been receiving anonymous hateful letters, but two weeks ago the perpetrator was caught. Cristel was...
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Police monitor people buying tools
In and around the city of Ede, Gelderland, several DIY chain stores have decided to film anyone buying tools such as big screwdrivers, chisels, crowbars or lump hammers under suspicion of being...
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Looming privacy disaster with ID system and police
As of 2015 Dutch citizens will be able to file charges with the police using DigiD, the national government’s digital identification system. If there’s a company that’s not thrilled with that idea,...
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Police ‘arrest’ sheep on the run
In Drachten, Friesland the police stopped a wandering sheep that was causing problems on a local motorway. After a few calls, the police came and grabbed the animal and put it in the back of their...
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Robbers leave prints in the snow, get caught
Earlier this week the police in Haarlem caught two robbers by following their footprints in the snow, a bit like an old fashion television cartoon. A woman called about her shop being broken into in...
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A non Rembrandt stolen from not quite Philips
On 8 August the news was that a Rembrandt had been stolen in March 2014 from the Philips family (the one from the company) from their villa and kept quiet because of protocol. Then, the Rembrandt was...
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Classic 1974 Dutch police Porsche to be auctioned
On 9 October a 1974 Porsche 911 Targa will be up for grabs to the highest bidder at Bonhams’ Zoute sale in Belgium (and not the Netherlands, as the source claims). The classic car used to belong to...
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Police train eagles to attack drones
Instead of scaring off seagulls with eagle noises like in Haarlem in 2015, the Dutch police have stepped up their game and are now training eagles to knock out ‘enemy’ drones out of the air. The idea...
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Police copy uniform design, then pressure choir in giving theirs up
At first it seemed a joke to Bravour, a shanty choir from Woerden. When the Dutch police introduced a new uniform in 2014, it turned out to be the spitting image of the choir’s uniform, dark blue with...
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Utrecht building’s warped design scares locals
A new building in Utrecht, adjacent to the Hoog Catharijne shopping mall, is getting strange reactions from locals. Passers-by recently called the police claiming the building looked like it was about...
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The eel riots of 1886 ended with 26 people and 1 eel dead
In the wake of the 1886 Eel Riots in Amsterdam, Dutch newspapers filled their columns with reports about the event, but it was French magazine l’Illustration that came out with these drawings by M. de...
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