Areas of improvement
Now that you know what ondermijning is about and the wijkagenten deal with, we want to introduce you to the main issues that the community-oriented police officers are facing.
• Transfer of signals
• Identifying ondermijning
• Knowledge of ondermijning
• Follow-up of signals
In all steps of ondermijning, different problems have been identified. One of the issues is the wrong recording of signals (i.e. information about suspicious behaviour) and the lack of communication between blue and grey police officers.
The lack of knowledge about the term ondermijning represents another area of improvement. This knowledge level can differ between the police officers, but in general, there is insufficient attention to the topic as it is also not a separate training topic.
Another challenge is to increase the awareness that the follow-up of the signals is a long-term investment. Although some signals might not lead to new findings and solve/prevent cases, it is inevitable to follow the signals. Regarding the identification of ondermijning, the main issues are that this part gets overshadowed by other daily tasks.
What would you expect to be the issue to tackle first?
