Agents have already registered 270 incidents this year. Last year there were 874 in total. According to a police spokesman, these are threats, intimidation, drug dealing, robberies and fights. In addition, women are harassed or even assaulted. Police arrested eight people this year. Last year there were fifty. And even then not everything is included in the statistics, the police say. “We observe an increasing line of incidents.”
Harassment, fights and assault; too few police officers to tackle addicts next to the Utrecht theatre
