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Implementation
Friesland scenario team
Since 2006, municipalities in Friesland have had scenario teams at their disposal. These teams are
multidisciplinary and support local authorities, the Public Prosecution Service and the police in
their efforts to limit social unrest. 580 Depending on the type of case, a specific team of specialists is
compiled that takes the various interests involved in the crisis into consideration. For example, in
the case of sexual offences involving young children, the Municipal Health Service not only takes
the social commotion in the village into account, but also takes the individual provision of assistance
to the young victims into consideration. The advantages and disadvantages of specific
interventions are weighed up for each situation. Various interests play a role in this. For example,
an informative meeting can help reduce unrest amongst parents. At the same time, a large meeting
can give children the impression that there is something really serious at hand, because all the
parents have been gathered together in a hurry. This presents the risk that the children will consider
the crisis to be increasing in size rather than decreasing in size. A standard scenario is available for
the return of sex offenders to society. But it is also possible, in situations where a criminal investigation
is underway and a large amount of uncertainty exists in the society regarding the facts, that
the scenario will also provide results. Based on past experiences, steps are set in motion from the
time of the report/declaration up to the end of the hearings of witnesses, the phase between the
hearing and possible arrest of suspects, up to and including the conclusion of the investigation and
up to the legal proceedings and the possible release of suspects. 581
3.6.3.2 Phases in the integrated approach
Each of the phases described below represents a period or an area requiring special attention during
and for the purpose of after-care and supervision of offenders. These relate to detection, prosecution
and trial, diagnosis and recommendations, treatment, supervision, and registration and notification,
respectively. The interventions described here form the sum total of measures and the actors that
are responsible for them, which, when taken together, would be able to contribute to an integrated
approach, and are required to do so. 582 Within each of the phases, various actors may have different
interests that sometimes go hand in hand, but are sometimes conflicting. For example, informing
mayors with the intention of combating social disruption can sometimes stand in the way of the supervision
of sex offenders. The enforcement of sentences may also hinder treatment that has already
been set in motion. Including perpetrators on registers in order to serve the interests of victims may
violate the rights of convicted perpetrators. As part of the discussion of the various elements, we will
also examine how much attention is devoted to problematic internet use by perpetrators of child
pornography.
580 The following definition is employed in Friesland as a working definition of social unrest for serious
violent offences: “Severe concern and emotional responses by (various) groups of people as a result
of a shocking event – a serious violent offence – in which there is a risk of escalation, disturbance of
public order and safety, and an increase in the problems related to this event.”
581 This text is largely based on Partoer CMO Fryslan & GGD Fryslan (2006) and www.burgemeesters.nl/
scenarioteams (viewed 26 July 2011).
582 Center for sex offender management, 2007a; Center for sex offender management, 2007b. Smallbone
(2008, p.210) states the following as offender-oriented, tertiary prevention strategies: identification
and detection, specific deterrence, general and selective incapacitation, and rehabilitation.
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