The same cameras have also ensured that the police were still on Saturday two suspects could arrest. A man from Woudenberg and Alphen aan den Rijn, both twenty years, have come to the sights of the police on the basis of images.
According to the mayor, these types of incidents cannot be prevented. Wearing a knife on the street is not punishable. That is allowed according to the law. The moment the knife owner is actually planning something, you can only intervene.
Preventive search?
And everyone but preventive searching on the groest is also not an option, Van den Top said. The moment enforcers or police find someone with a knife with a knife, they can take it away and that person can be arrested for forbidden possession of weapons.
“But as long as that is not going on and they just walk around on the groest, you cannot search them. Then you really have to take the step to an area that you should characterize as a safety risk area. You have to compete with the Public Prosecution Service. There is no reason at all at all,” said the mayor.
New agreements
According to the mayor, it is absolutely priority in Hilversum. Last November, new agreements were made in a covenant on stricter access policy at the entertainment venues. In addition, the keeping of drugs and weapons and the searching search points are spearheads, according to Van den Top.
In addition, the municipality has an educational program for young people in collaboration with Bureau Halt, says the mayor. They deal with this information project at schools in Hilversum. “We also want to wake parents and teachers with this, so that we can prevent the normalization of this development.”