National phenomenon
Municipal Audit Offices do not only receive little input from citizens in Drenthe. Jan de Ridder is chairman of the Dutch Association of Audit Offices and Audit Committees and he responds to the following about the national developments. “Citizens rarely just drop by. That is logical. There are many matters that require attention. And unlike, for example, an ombudsman, an audit office does not concern itself with the interests of individual citizens. But that does not mean that citizens never express themselves Citizens who turn to audit offices are often very involved in certain policy areas (…) They have often tried to exert influence with administrators and representatives of the people before, and they also try the audit office. valuable information and good ideas for research.”