The number of forensic psychiatric patients residing in long-stay wards has almost halved over the last four years. In the department for long term stays are this year 112 people. In 2012, there were two hundred.
According to State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff (Security and Justice) will continue to fall, reports AD Thursday.
Long-stay wards for forensic psychiatric patients who are unable to return despite their treatment in society. One reason may be that the person does not cooperate with his treatment.
Today there are fewer forensic psychiatric patients in long-stay hospitals because whether someone uitbehandeld there more views. The treatments are better and more focused person.
"Therefore, in some cases to secure a tbs'er, under supervision, to let go," said Hjalmar van Marle, forensic psychiatrist and former director of the Pieter Baan Centre against the newspaper.
The monopoly
The exodus Pump Foundation is the only long-stay clinic in the Netherlands. The Council for Administration of Criminal Justice warned previously the monopoly of Pompestichting.
There should open a second clinic for forensic psychiatric patients who are not doing well or do not agree with their treatment. But that can according Dijkhoff not, precisely because of the declining number of forensic psychiatric patients in long-stay wards.
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