Criminals make victims in all layers of the companies. Sometimes there are whole networks rolled up. “It’s like a many -headed monster,” says Saskia Wildemors. “If you cut one head, another head will come up somewhere else.”
Since then, extra barriers have been raised, such as additional camera surveillance and stricter checks. The screening has also been further tightened. In addition, staff will receive training to be more resilient against criminal influence.
Threat of staff
Michael van der Heide of the Marechaussee describes in the episode how sharpened criminals work and investigate their victims. “They know exactly where your vulnerability lies, they have a good feeling for that. Nowadays everyone places everything on the internet.”
“To name an example: you bring your son or daughter to football in uniform. If that is striking at some point by criminals, they can see if you are a possible target. It starts very carefully: ‘Oh how nice, you, you Works for that organization, my son may also want to work there, maybe we should do a cup of coffee. “
“At some point they say: you get fifty thousand euros from me if you do this job. That is of course easy to make money, especially if you are in debt, for example.” But according to Van der Heide according to steps you will not be that easy afterwards.
Structural approach
“We know what we pick up, but we don’t know what’s going on. But we’ll see that by raising a lot of barriers, there is an increase in other places. And then we hope that it is because it is too difficult for us “says Mayor Marianne Schuurmans of Haarlemmermeer. “But very honestly: I can never prove that our approach works.”
Schuurmans speaks of a structural problem. “As long as there are criminals, we have to keep looking at the ways they act and act on it. So this is a structural problem that we also have to continue to tackle each other structurally.”