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The Police in the Netherlands
Impact of Global Security Contexts on Domestic Police Roles and Tasks&#=
13;
by Rob Hutschemaekers,
Commissioner of Police
Commissioner of Police
P=
rague,
September 4-9, 2005
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Content
•<=
/span>Organisation of the Dutch Police =
3;
•<=
/span>Context that led to reconsider the r=
ole of
the police
•<=
/span>The so-called ‘Vision document=
’
from the Board of Chiefs
of Police (June 2005)
•<=
/span>Two issues mentioned in the report: =
• - Local orientat=
ion:
community policing is leading
• - Additional appr=
oach:
‘Nodal’ orientation
•<=
/span>Concluding central message
–
–
–
•
The Dutch Police in brief
•<=
/span>24 Regional Police Forces
•The size of a Police Force depends on
various fac=
tors,
such as population size, crime level, building density, etc.
•<=
/span>Each Regional Force consists of a nu=
mber of police districts
<=
/div>
•<=
/span>Regions and Districts have a general
mandate
•<=
/span>The Regions are supported by the Nat=
ional Police Agency (KLPD)
•<=
/span>55,000 officers; 1 officer per 320
inhabitants
•<=
/span>Limburg Zuid, wedged between Belgium=
and Germany
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Belgium
Germany
Context
•Mass mobility: people, goods, money and information
<=
/span>
•Increasing anonymous existence: caused by social developments (Individual life style, mobility,
immigration, loss of social cohesion)
•Safety as a Political =
and a Media issue
•Pressure to perform: from the media, from the governing authorities and from the public
•Overcharge: impossible claims on the police capacity <=
span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'font-size:111%;display:none'>
•Changed circumstances: 9/11, the distinction between internal and external safety has disappeared, For=
tuyn
+ van Gogh
Vision document
“Police in Development”
“Police in Development”
•What it is not : Discussion about organisational
structures
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:133%;visibility:hidden'>•
poli= ce
10 issues on the horizon
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Community policing
as leading principle
as leading principle
•Point of departure is “to know=
and to
be known” (i.e. the lo=
cal police officer)
•Organise the police in such a way th=
at it
can operate in the direct
vicinity of the public, in territorial units responsible for the entire police work
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:111%'>•Attention for the area / neighbourho=
od, but
also for social structures
(commercial companies, schools, cultural institutions, action groups, etc.)
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:111%'>•The police operates in a socially in=
tegrated
way (together with various
partners in the community)
Nodal orientation (I)
•Social processes are increasingly de=
termined
by traffic of people, goods,
money flows and information exchange
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:111%'>•consequently this ‘space of
flows’ is gaining importance
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:111%'>•the interaction between living space=
and
these flows determines more and more the character of feelings of unsafety
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:111%'>•this interaction creates an opening =
to fight
these feelings of unsafety,
because flows have to use infrastructure
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