Police traumatise women and children by mistake

Here’s a Web 2.0 plea that says ‘always update your intel’.

Yesterday in The Hague, the immigration police raided a hostel for mothers and children in the wee hours, suspecting it was being used by illegal immigrants (read = mostly men). The big scary screaming men busted down the front door, banged on bedroom doors and apparently freaked out little children.

“Junior justice minister Nebahat Albayrak, who was with the police on a fact-finding mission, witnessed events and helped comfort the children.” Why the cockup? Police used old information from the population registry. How stupid can you be? Some 20% of that information in every large Dutch city is false, everybody knows that.

This pic is the corner of my resident’s permit, as I thought the rushing bull was fitting.

(Link: dutchnews.nl)

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Tags: immigrants, police, The Hague