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Emergo een rapport - Website voor de Politie

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▶ two subject­oriented projects focusing on key individuals<br />

and key positions in the Wallen district, in parallel with<br />

a project concerned with Amsterdam­based professional<br />

criminals operating in this area.<br />

It is beyond the scope of this summary to gives <strong>de</strong>tails of the<br />

research method, the scale and the findings of each subproject.<br />

The opportunities that <strong>Emergo</strong> provi<strong>de</strong>d for gaining an un<strong>de</strong>rstanding<br />

of the problems of serious organized crime in the<br />

centre of Amsterdam, and of the complications that arose in<br />

exploiting these opportunities are outlined below. More <strong>de</strong>tails<br />

then follow about the actual interventions carried out in<br />

the various subprojects, followed by an outline of the serious<br />

organized crime in the 1012 postco<strong>de</strong> area based on all the<br />

research, information and action attributable to <strong>Emergo</strong>.<br />

Project execution: the opportunities<br />

The complications in the execution of <strong>Emergo</strong> should not overshadow<br />

the unprece<strong>de</strong>nted opportunities generated by the<br />

project for the participants to build cooperation. Furthermore,<br />

these complications were not necessarily <strong>de</strong>trimental: in their<br />

way they highlight the aspects in a project of this kind that<br />

<strong>de</strong>serve priority in improving the project organization and<br />

performance. They constitute the real lessons learned.<br />

First and foremost in this connection is to emphasize how<br />

crucial the exchange of information betw<strong>een</strong> the participating<br />

organizations was for the performance of <strong>Emergo</strong>. The direct<br />

information sharing with as few restrictions as possible is the<br />

real life blood in this kind of partnership. It not only facilitates<br />

the emergence of an early common view of the existence and<br />

nature of any problems, but is also a strategic precondition for<br />

a satisfactory, and if necessary joint, approach to these problems.<br />

It should come as no surprise that once the legal framework<br />

was clear, the <strong>Emergo</strong> participants, whether concerned with<br />

general analyses or specific cases, exchanged available information,<br />

or gathered the information required, ever more<br />

readily and directly. The involvement from the outset of staff<br />

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