Unprofessional behavior, outdated equipment and poor people. At the investigation, there is’ overdue maintenance in the investigation, “because everything is wrong. How bad is it?
Minister Ard van der Steur, an analysis of the ins and outs of the investigative branch of the police sent to the Lower House. Researchers spoke to police officers, researchers and journalists watched dozens of reports
Some hard conclusions.
- Too much difference in quality of investigators. It lacks arranged to craftsmanship and is maintained by “a culture of permissiveness.” There are many people with too little expertise, in some areas is even knowledge deficit. The quality is there, is not exploited.
- There is not enough money for IT, allowing employees to work with outdated equipment. In the meantime, improvising with self-managed or private equipment. The report states: “Many, especially young colleagues only use their personal iPhone for work, because they can not effectively work with the outdated service phone.”
- Tracking Opportunities lie because the support from specialized services ( forensics, digital, technical) is inadequate
- experimented too much, thereby leaving innovations
- the handling of cyber crime and fraud are inadequate:.. many victims can not be helped here and willingness to report decreases. Business is not too late or arrested
- The detection is ‘verhokt’:. There include insufficient connection between investigative and intelligence between detective and ‘blue’, and investigation departments mutually work enough together <. / li>
- There is a structural question of understaffing. Information Departments are overburdened.
- The training offer is meager in size and should be arranged flexibly.
- The investigation lacks leadership, a figurehead. In the absence of explicit policy for knowledge transfer from experienced people on young colleagues the next time will be a lot of valuable knowledge will be lost.
Not only solve with money
According to political reporter Fons Lambie this is yet another alarming report on the quality of the police. “Think of the book by former detective Michael Princen which includes a staggering picture was sketched from the investigation. So far, the Ministry of Security and Justice promised every time improvement by pointing to the formation and development of the National Police. Dan everything would be better. “
But this report shows that the problem according to Lambie deep. “Deep down, this is not resolved within a few years all political parties require additional money for the police That’s sure, but who reads this report:… This is not only to solve with money.”
Truly off the shelf
According to police union ACP are mainly the leadership corps of the police, politicians and the Minister responsible for the problems. “I am very surprised that the role of the corps leadership and politics is not included in this report,” said President Gerrit van de Kamp. “We have been saying for years that there just had to be invested in the investigation. That has not happened, in fact there is a lot of cutbacks.”
D66, CDA and SP want Van der Steur minister as soon may take steps to get back on track the investigation. “The minister denied ever, but the body is still in the closet,” twitters CDA MP Madeleine van Toorenburg.
Reputation indeed good
Despite incidents around the cops and bad news the recherche the Dutchman does have confidence in the police. According to research by Erasmus University, which newspaper Trouw message. The citizen gives 68.7 points on a confidence scale from 0 to 100.
2600 civilians and more than 100 partners from the police who were surveyed, call police “brave, reliable and impartial.” More than 3,500 police officers gave 69.9 points reliability of their own organization.
Dutch do want the police better listens and gives more open about how they work. The service, for example when making a declaration could be better. The police should be more visible in the community.
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