Police criminal lures often in the fall with undercover operations

They are active not only in murder cases, drug cases and trafficking. Even with relatively minor offenses such as fraud, extortion and money laundering, the police department WOD (Working Under Cover) enabled. 

According to figures that got hold of the AD through an appeal to the Freedom of Information Act.

Heavy detection means turns in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively 55, 82 and 68 times to be deployed. That is significantly more than in 2004, the only known comparison year. When found 31 undercover operations instead.

,, The police is becoming more creative in undercover methods, '' said the Rotterdam criminal lawyer Sander Janssen. Lawyers warn of a lack of control.

Mister Big
In at least one murder, the police applied the internationally criticized Mister Big method. In addition, suspects are destroyed a fictional criminal organization. They get well-paid jobs, but are then forced to confess their act to the big boss (Mister Big).

Foreign travel, expensive cars, speedboats and payments: Undercover Agents all the stops to confess a suspect. The tactic was successful and controversial.

After the murder of Vivica Spong seem all parts of the Mister Big methodology applied in 2014. The tactic was used that same year as a whole in the murder of Heidy Goedhartfrom Kaatsheuvel.

Solved
Lawyer Arthur van der Biezen, lawyer Wim S., calls the method Mister Big poorly controllable. The police say they do not make recordings of the conversations. Van der Biezen calls for mandatory recording of calls.

,, There was light between what explained the undercover agents and what my client could remember. So was not in the file said the company had a solution for difficult people. "They knew to dig a hole." Such a comment is a huge threat. On hearing said a policeman that such elements were deliberately kept out of the file to give access to the methodology. ''

Janssen would applaud recordings: ,, There is almost always a discrepancy between how the accused has experienced and how it is in the file. Is there provoked example? It's in these processes are poorly controllable. ''

The police realizes that WOD "is heavily detection means' one. ,, But there are major criminal cases solved it, '' said spokesman Thomas Aling.

The police are becoming more creative in undercover method criminal lawyer Sander Janssen

By Editorial: AD / Koen Voskuil Photo: Reuters