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)
The Dutch Union of Criminals — I kid you not — has 
German police destroyed a marijuana field in Ruhrauen near Duisburg after they were tipped by a passer-by that it smelled “just like Amsterdam” there, 
Last Sunday the Utrecht police caught a 37-year-old thief who had stolen two car radios. 
Last Wednesday a car thief in The Hague was in the possession of 10,000 euro without even knowing it, 
Patent lawyer 
– “Officer, officer! You have to arrest my neighbour, Mr De Vries.”
The headline may be a little misleading, because when the police stopped Simon de Bruin at an unknown date in Amstelveen and fined him 150 euro, it was for sticking a finger in his own ear. To be even more precise, the police thought he was making a phone call while driving a car which is only allowed if you do it hands-free. When De Bruin protested that he had just showered, that he was merely removing the last bit of water from his ear and that the police could check his phone logs, the officers were unimpressed and uninterested. “Tell it to the judge,” they told De Bruin. 