News item | 31-03-2025 | 12:00
The next phase of the digital reporting obligation pilot starts. From the beginning of April, the municipalities of Leeuwarden, Rotterdam and Utrecht can use the Mini ID, a small portable box, to impose an area ban on digital reporting obligation to nuisance football supporters. Persons who receive an area ban on digital reporting obligation must report with their fingerprint via the Mini ID at certain times during certain competitions. In this way it is demonstrated whether someone is inside or outside the prohibited area and whether the reporting obligation is met.
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Minister Van Weel:
“The Mini ID can ensure that rioters with an area ban can be more easily excluded from the forbidden area. If the reporting person is in the forbidden area at the time that the person may not be there, there is a violation and this can lead to prosecution by the OM. The digital reporting obligation helps to prevent the following phase of the next phase of the PLILOTOT. roll out. ”
Pilot digital reporting obligation
Nuisance football supporters can get an area ban if they misbehave themselves around football matches. A digital reporting obligation can be linked to this, to check whether people are adhering to the area ban. At the end of last year, test users started the digital reporting obligation in the municipalities of Rotterdam, Utrecht and Leeuwarden, where the use of a small portable box was tested: the Mini ID. In this phase of the pilot, the usability, reliability, safety and technology was tested, just like the privacy of users.
Physical and digital reporting obligation
A digital reporting obligation has been possible by law for some time, but could not yet be imposed in practice because the technology did not yet exist. A physical reporting obligation, in which persons must report at an agreed location at a certain time, is not imposed. This is considered a heavy plea that can be disproportionate to the violation, and it seizes the capacity of the police who must receive and register the reporting party on location. The digital reporting obligation takes away these objections.