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Unlike the UK, the Dutch do not bugger about with scum.
Apologies for the poor translation but you will get the gist.
and from last night
Apologies for the poor translation but you will get the gist.
DELFT - To trouble and aggression in the night train to curb, traveled to the railway police in plain clothes this weekend along the route to The Hague-Rotterdam-Breda.
The goal: to show that even in the night hours the normal rules. The harvest: 152 fines, 23 arrests and 60 black riders caught.
Quarter past five on Sunday morning, Delft station. When a gallant knight tries a young travelers to save his girlfriend. Her night out is likely to end in a cell after a hefty Rotterdam shouting match against eight officers in civilian clothes. 'Take me instead of her!''He shouts. His friends encourage him: "Save the cop, then you will be arrested.''
The story of this group of young people begin fifteen minutes earlier at Rotterdam Central Station. While waiting on the last night train travelers, sees the young travelers repeatedly open and shut the door. It is precisely this kind of wanton behavior to the civil officers of the National Police Agency, where the railway police corps, the print head.
But first the conductor gets the chance. He threatens the boys from the train set. It does not impress. Just before one of the guys down the button again. Unfortunately for him under the nose of a citizen of the agents, who drew up the strategy of stale beer smelling balcony. After six brutal decline shows the boy his identity. And keep smiling, even as calls to him that his night out more expensive than expected.
Then the additional conductors during the operation of the railway police in the train control. Good fish adolescent boys out of their pocket cards. The rest seems to have returned. But on the Station Delft is still wrong. First the boy a rattle sound behind the agent. Then press another button on the door again, while passengers are disembarking.
One by one, the group pulled the train station and off while the police dog barks at a tremendous distance. Eventually the girl swears that she is arrested. Her boyfriend remains in Delft. "It went so well. They all had a ticket,''sighs a conductress.
Intimidation, threats and abuse of NS staff was with urinating on the balconies, ignoring the smoking ban and vandalism reason for the railway police in citizen surveillance. Thus testing the agents in the real atmosphere the night network. "If we get in uniform, everybody immediately behaves,''knows Joost line agent for the route between Rotterdam and The Hague. Now see the policemen who misbehaves, they can act against him and set limits, in the hope that the passengers are drunk often behave better. So that the tourists and "sober" workers feel secure.
The message seems to come, suggests Joost. A first control last September was also the aggression men and women as part of the railway police. This weekend was much quieter. "It begins to realize that not everything is allowed on the train. However, we must persevere.''
The severity also arouses annoyance. 'Do I get a really fine? That is exaggerated,''sighs a boy who has his feet on the chair provided. ,, Are you at home then? Another must here again going down,''is the answer.
and from last night
Checks in 39 night trains in the Randstad and Ontario are 31 fines handed out Friday night because of disturbance of public order and safety. These were people who smoked, their feet on the bench, begging, drunk or alcohol with them, were too loud or their identity would not show.
Fifty employees of the National Police and the Dutch Railways checked 5730 passengers, of whom 77 had no valid ticket with him. They get a report.
The controls are designed to drive black, misconduct and assault combat. In general, the atmosphere in the trains and stations on the property, reports the NS. Two people were arrested, including one man who has 133 days in jail to spend.