A city guard with a baton? In more and more municipalities you can who will soon encounter. Sure 13 municipalities have definite plans to go to arming the so-called Boas.
That is clear from a tour of the municipalities in the AD. City wait and other regional officials (Boas) are in some places equipped with for example handcuffs, pepper spray or a baton. In Alkmaar choose even for armament with both baton and pepper spray.
More and more violence Boas have more and more to do with threat and violence, some forty percent of municipalities says that regulators over the past year are abused. Municipalities want to avoid their Boas. And that will only increase, does the President of interests BOA ACP. "The police is becoming less visible on the street, take the municipalities now Director in its own hands."
However, not everyone is happy with the weapons. Police forces are generally not enthusiastic. The ORDER, which must give permission for the armament, calls to the police advice. And who see it in many cases rather not.
Dangerous development President MIA pan of a police trade union ANPV rept ' dangerous development '. He stresses that in the Netherlands it has been agreed that monopoly to the police and defence. "If that shifts, you run the risk that less experienced BOA's in trouble. '' In Zeist had to surrender their Boas batons last year because they ' unnecessary ' was made.
Bron: http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/ Foto: RTL/ANP
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