Monday, January 9, 2017

Calendar should prisoners be tempted to tips about cold cases – NOS

The idea comes from the United States. There is to prisoners in a card game were issued.

According to president Wim Perlot of the Cold Case Platform play witness to an important role in the solving of old cases. The investigation of the police showed that in the Netherlands, hundreds of people are walking around with information. A part of these people is in jail.

“In the prison, talk to prisoners with each other. They confess to a murder or tell what they have heard. The proportions may change, which someone later is willing to be the secret to reveal”, says Perlot.

The test with the calendars is being held in the prisons of Leeuwarden, Zutphen, the netherlands, Sittard, the netherlands, Schiphol airport and Brighton. If the action is a success, the calendars in all the prisons scattered.

The trial is part of a larger project of the police to draw attention to cold cases. Thus there is a 6-part television series of SBS 6 about some of the things.

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