Bruls: boas just have to do their job

Municipal enforcers just have to do their job on Saturday evening. When night restaurants open their doors after 10 p.m., it’s their job to enforce. If the boas did not do that, because the police are conducting a collective labor agreement on Saturday, it would look like a refusal to work, says Mayor Hubert Bruls van Nijmegen, chairman of the Security Council of the 25 mayors who chair a security region.

The police have a labor dispute with the Ministry of the Interior. The police unions have called on boas to show solidarity. “But the boas are municipal employees, and they have no conflict at all. Then someone would not do their normal work, because a completely different profession has a conflict. It shouldn’t get any crazier,” says Bruls. The top man of the Security Council emphasized on Radio1 that municipalities, and not federation chairmen of police and boas, are the employer of the enforcers.

According to Bruls, it is not the intention of the police to remain completely invisible on Saturday. He understands that cops won’t be handing out coupons. “But there are also other ways to maintain.” He also thinks that many nightclub owners are dropping the action, because there is a lot of prospect of an early relaxation. “Nevertheless, we will act against things that open anyway. It would be strange not to do that. Football clubs are not allowed to let everyone in on Sunday either. That’s just the way it is.”