National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie
National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie
National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie
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is a ‘rip deal’, whereby buyers of a shipment of drugs use violence to take<br />
the drugs and leave without paying. There are criminal organisations who<br />
are involved in ripping as a secondary activity in addition to their own drug<br />
trafficking, but cases have also been reported of criminal organisations that<br />
focus primarily on ripping. Rip deals are the most frequently occurring form<br />
of violence between criminal organisations. There is extensive use of (heavy)<br />
weapons. There are also examples relating to cannabis growing, whereby<br />
cannabis nurseries were plundered just before the owners would have started<br />
harvesting. Violence is only used in these cases if the owners ‘run across’ the<br />
offenders. As a result, owners have started guarding or securing their cannabis<br />
nurseries, not to keep out investigating agencies, but to keep out criminal<br />
organisations that want to steal the harvest.<br />
Every now and then there are reports of (threats of) violence as part of extortion<br />
by a criminal organisation. In one case, criminals asked for taxes from human<br />
smugglers for access to a port area. The smugglers had to pay the criminal<br />
organisation a certain amount per person smuggled (100 euros was mentioned).<br />
Otherwise they would not be allowed into the port.<br />
Liquidations are another form of violence. A liquidation (or a liquidation attempt)<br />
is defined as the use of deadly violence, where the motive is related to one or<br />
more other criminal offences. Strictly speaking, a case cannot be designated a<br />
liquidation until the crime has been solved. Despite the massive media attention,<br />
the number of liquidations appears to be falling rather than rising. A significant<br />
number of murder and manslaughter cases in the south of the Netherlands are<br />
related to illegal cannabis growing.<br />
5.3.3 Scale<br />
Drawing conclusions about the scale of instrumental violence relating to<br />
organised crime is difficult. There are few statistics available and the pattern<br />
changes somewhat between the various types of crime. In the cases of human<br />
trafficking relating to prostitution that were studied, structural violence was used<br />
in around 70% of the cases 67 . The use of violence during robberies has increased<br />
in recent years. In the past three years the risk of being injured during a robbery<br />
has increased by a percentage point every year to over 20% in the first half<br />
of 2007.<br />
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Dienst <strong>National</strong>e Recherche (DNR), <strong>2008.</strong> Mensenhandel. Deelrapport Criminaliteitsbeeldanalyse<br />
2007. Korps landelijke politiediensten (Netherlands Police Agency), DNR (<strong>National</strong> <strong>Crime</strong> Squad),<br />
Driebergen (confidential).<br />
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