“It cannot be the case that the police and the Public Prosecution Service set aside the Penal Code. They’re not about that. This scares me,” says mayor Mark Bouwmans of Doetinchem.
He is responding to an article today about an internal document from the police and the Public Prosecution Service in the eastern Netherlands. This is in the hands of this site. It lists very concretely which matters will receive no or less attention, such as animal abuse, fraud up to 2,000 euros and refueling without paying.