News item | 12-10-2023 | 4:15 PM
The municipalities of Rotterdam, Leeuwarden and Utrecht will experiment with the digital reporting obligation for nuisance football supporters. This allows municipalities to check whether rioters with an area ban comply with it. During the experiment, a small portable box is used: the Mini-ID, which fulfills the reporting obligation by reading a fingerprint. In the experiment we test the reporting process and the technology. The experiment is expected to start in November.
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Physical reporting obligation
The mayor can impose an administrative ban on people who have disturbed public order. The mayor can impose a reporting obligation on this to ensure that someone does not enter the prohibited area. For example, near a football stadium where a match is being played at that moment. Currently, persons with a reporting obligation still have to report to the police station at a certain time. In practice, a physical reporting obligation is currently rarely imposed, because it is considered a heavy burden that can be disproportionate to the violation, and because it takes up the capacity of the police who must receive and register the reporting person on location.
Digital reporting obligation
A digital reporting obligation is already legally possible, but is not yet imposed in practice because the technology is still being developed. The Ministry of Justice and Security, together with the municipalities of Rotterdam, Leeuwarden and Utrecht, will test this technology with the Mini-ID experiment. This small, portable box allows reporting parties to report and it is registered if someone does not comply with the area ban. The person required to report is identified in advance by means of a fingerprint. The experiment examines, among other things, the reliability of the system, security and privacy of the users.
The experiment
In the first phase of the experiment, 10 volunteers from the participating organizations will carry the Mini-ID with them. They are given a fictitious area ban and must report at certain times over a period of two months. In this phase, the test subjects test the technical and organizational functioning of the Mini-ID. In the second test phase, people who actually have an area ban with a reporting obligation will use the Mini ID. In addition to test subjects, reporting officers from the three municipalities that are actually imposed an area ban in combination with a reporting obligation participate in this phase.