The police ask skippers not to come to Amsterdam anymore. It would have become too crowded on the water.
“Don’t come to the capital by boat anymore and avoid the busy canal belt,” the police wrote on Twitter. One-way traffic has been introduced at a number of locations to ensure traffic flow and prevent congestion.
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On Tuesday, the police warned that additional officers would be active on the water. Mainly to fine skippers who drank too much during King’s Day, or broke the rules. “It happened too often in the past that colleagues approached skippers, but did not fine them. We are not the swinging police that you wave to from your boat,” said a police team leader.
Two fast police motorboats and a larger ship are moored at the police station at the IJdok, but today officers from the National Unit are also assisting.
