Violence against the police on NYE more than doubled in comparison to last year

We all know that a large police presence is needed on New Year’s Eve, but this year, violence against the police in the Netherlands more than doubled from last year. This year 59 separate incidents occurred, compared to 27 last year.

The emergency services also had to attend to more incidents this year. It’s up 9% from the previous year.

Fireworks

Fireworks were the big issue on New Year’s Eve, and in The Hague, officers had fireworks being thrown at them. In general firework incidents rose by 12%, threats of abuse also rose by 12%, vandalism rose by 8.5%. However, despite this, less people were arrested overall. Many who were detained, were done so because of firework incidents.

Firework sales are up and with this comes more firework issues (are we honestly surprised?)


Yup, this really happened

Emergency services have had enough

Members of the emergency services have had enough of the issues that arise during the New Year’s Eve celebration. Especially when it involves violence towards the workers. Mark Rutte even made an appeal to the country for people to be respectful to the emergency service workers (you know it’s bad when the prime minister has to TELL people to be nice to people who are there to keep us safe).

This has sparked a re-examination of the running’s of New Year’s Eve in the Netherlands in general. The punishment for breaking the law, the organisation of NYE, the fireworks and of course the bonfires are going to be re-examined by next year. They are hoping that this will do something.

I’ll leave this one here…

What are your thoughts on this? What do you think should be done? Let us know in the comments!

Emma Brown
Emma Brown
A familiar face at DutchRevew. Emma arrived in Holland in 2016 for a few weeks, fell in love with the place and never left. Here she rekindled her love of writing and travelling. Now you'll find her eating stroopwafels in the DutchReview office since 2017.

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