National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie

Acknowledgements
This National Threat Assessment (NTA) has been achieved by the efforts of many.
Without them, the NTA would not be what it is now. We would therefore like to
express our gratitude to everyone who contributed to the assessment, very often
under time pressure.
During the preparations for the assessment, the Police Academy carried out a
study on crime-relevant factors. Many used the outcome of this study to draw
up analyses which were incorporated in this NTA. We thank all analysts of the
regional police forces who drew up crime pattern analyses of regional organised
crime from April to November 2007. No fewer than twenty-two forces produced
such an analysis, often with limited means.
We would also like to thank the researchers and analysts of the National Crime
Squad for their cooperation with regard to the crime pattern analyses in the
squad’s assigned crime areas.
We are grateful to all those who contributed to the IPOL subreports, not just
to the authors of these reports, but also to the editors and designers involved
in revising the manuscripts.
The internal and external experts who were interviewed in connection with
the subreports receive our thanks for their cooperation, as do the organisations
who lent their researchers to IPOL: the National Public Prosecutor’s Office for
Financial, Economic and Environmental Offences, and the Police Academy.
We thank the members of the supervisory committee who monitored the
process and provided the authors with well-wrought comment.
Finally, we would like to mention the following persons who made substantial
contributions during the final phases of the project and contributed to the
success of the NTA in their own particular way: Peter Klerks, Sally Mesu,
Fred Nieuwenhuis, and Ine van Praet.
September 2008
Frank Boerman
Martin Grapendaal
Anne Mooij
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