Again big moll scandal at police

In The Hague, the State Investigation Department has encountered a major new corruption affair within the Dutch police. There's a policeman arrested who is suspected for years using confidential investigative information from the police to have operated a criminal organization.

The now 28-year-old policeman of Moroccan descent, according to the detective structural Moroccan-Dutch criminal accomplices provided confidential police information. He has been arrested on June 1, but in recent weeks became quite clear the extent of the scandal. The suspect would be a member of a criminal group which was mainly concerned with drug trafficking. When police received information about hemp plantations or storage of drugs played the agent information to criminal cronies. They committed then, sometimes violently, ripdeals and took drugs seized before the police could do this.

It is the second time within a year that a very serious corruption scandal comes to light when the police. Last September was an agent of national unity, Mark M. of Weert, arrested after examination of the State Investigation Department. He is suspected of more than a hundred criminal investigations have stolen information and then by selling to the underworld.

The now arrested Hague agent is suspected by the prosecution of four crimes: corruption, violation of his official secrecy, the co-commit burglaries and attempted and participation in a criminal organization.

Arrested accomplices

Three of his alleged accomplices have also been arrested. One of them, a 27-year old man from The Hague was also arrested on 1 June. He received the information of the suspect agent and will also suspected of corruption and involvement in the criminal organization. The other two suspects, a 27-year-old man from Leidschendam and a 29-year-old man from Leidschendam arrested on 14 June and accused of burglary and attempted, or of carrying out preparatory acts for a burglary. The council chamber of the Hague court decided yesterday that the arrested agent at least sixty days must be in custody.

Shocked by size

The Department also came the corruption case in The Hague on the track after a tip from the underworld. When OM and the police is very shocked by the level of corruption, says a high-ranking source detection. "We assume that the main suspect agent to work with the police with the preconceived plan to gather confidential police information." Also regarding the politiemol Weert The Department also has growing evidence that he started working for the police for the purpose of criminals. Immediately during his training at the Police Academy, he reportedly copied secret police information to his USB stick.

Battle for diversity policy

The detention of Moroccan origin agent is seen by the police as a major blow to the already laborious extending diversity policy: Efforts to attract more officers from ethnic minorities. "The now arrested policeman was last year put the leadership corps in The Hague in the limelight as a model agent. He was honored by his bosses and got extra reward for his good work. His arrest is a huge blow to the Corps, '' said a source in the Hague detection device. The fear is that this corruption case corps wary makes attracting agents of foreign descent.

The prosecution expects the Hague suspects on September 9 for the first time will appear on a so-called pro forma session of the Hague court. The examination of the State Investigation Department to the various police moles is still in progress. The suspicion of corruption agent Mark M. of Weert was last month ordered by the court in Den Bosch discharged from custody. The trial of his criminal case is scheduled for May 2017.

In the Hague corruption case, it is for the State Investigation Department reportedly easier to collect evidence. In the case against Mark M. has to show police struggling he sold the stolen information effectively. All suspicious customers and the mole silence to the police.

By Editorial NRC Photo: Jeroen Jumelet / Reuters