"By itself, it really when things happen and I can imagine that people are scared," said Mayor of Katwijk Jos Wienen Commenting on the figures on the number of reports of sexual offenses in azc programs.
Wienen has with the Association of Dutch Municipalities asylum cases in its portfolio.
"But at the same time I also think:.. These are total figures for the whole year in order to be able to interpret it slightly, you see it in relation to what normally occurs with police contact that gives a different picture."
The figures show that the police last year, 55 reports of sexual offenses registered in refugee centers. The COA registered a total of 8000 incidents. In more than half of the cases, the police came there to pass.
We play hard against all abuses and we will continue to do so.
(Jos Wienen, mayor Katwijk)According Wienen change the numbers not the way action is taken against abuses. "In general, I find extremely serious sexual offenses," said Wienen. "We have thousands of the Netherlands. There are now 55 on top because we have asylum-seekers, it is serious."
"We need clarification on top down to ensure that those things and those people are addressed. We've already done. These figures indicate that no new information. So where something occurs, we step hard on and we will continue do."
The VNG will see mostly by municipality according Wienen what the numbers mean and how municipalities should deal with. "I did it for my own church done," said Wienen. "We had a total of 114 police incidents in a reception center with 1200 people. Out of a total of 17 650 incidents in the whole church. This puts it."
I can say to my people, there is happily no reason for major concern.
The figures mainly about what happens inside the azc programs. Wienen wonders what that means for the outside world. "What makes citizens of a municipality it? In our case it is two shoplifting," said Wienen. "For the rest goes to the incidents on the asylum seekers' center I can tell my people:. Fortunately there is no cause for great concern."
According Wienen, there is more context required in the figures. "I think my colleagues will take care of that which they say. People, we take all incidents seriously and we will act, but let's not raise the image that something is very big and dangerous process, because this is fortunately all. relatively."
"Again, we are talking about two shoplifting in a town of 62,000 inhabitants," said Wienen."That's two too many, but that is not something to hoist the storm flag or recall that we are dealing with a crime wave."
Source: NOS.nl/ © Reuters
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