Overview
- JA21, BBB and PVV criticized the unit’s public response to a filmed arrest involving excessive force, while police stressed they are awaiting the independent Commissie Geweldsaanwending review and rejected claims they abandoned colleagues.
- Interior Minister Frank Rijkaart said a criminal investigation is underway into the doxing of the involved officer, as the two women seen in the video pursue complaints including alleged assault.
- Amsterdam’s mayor, prosecution service and police warned that victims and suspects aged 12–17 in serious violent crimes have roughly doubled year on year, citing social media recruitment and limited prospects as drivers.
- In the Haarlem gang-violence case, 18-year-old Faris-Dien W. denied involvement, but prosecutors argued he was fully part of a targeted revenge attack that previously prompted school closures after graphic videos circulated.
- Police reported new incidents under investigation: shots fired at a home in Ridderkerk with no injuries, a Vlaardingen operation yielding eight knives and drugs, arrests of four fake officers linked to dozens of elderly victims, a Nieuwersluis cell mattress fire extinguished, and reduced Intercity service between Arnhem and Utrecht due to a points failure.