The Public Prosecution Service has imposed a community service of 150 hours on a 53-year-old police officer from The Hague for computer breach and leaking information. The man searched for information in the police system nearly 500 times without a valid work-related reason.
This information was about women he had met during his work and with whom he maintained contact outside of work. In some cases, he also provided this police data to the women, for example, about the chassis number of a confiscated caravan or about emergency assistance to a mother of one of these women.
The man searched for information in the police system for two years, from 2022 to 2024. After an investigation by the police, he was dismissed. The Public Prosecution Service takes this kind of unnecessary inquiries very seriously. Police systems contain sensitive personal information about citizens. Therefore, police officers are not allowed to consult these systems for personal gain or out of personal involvement or curiosity. Furthermore, it must be prevented that police information is leaked to criminals or other unauthorized persons. For this reason, it is also important that police systems are only accessed as far as necessary for the performance of police duties.
During a hearing at the Public Prosecution Service, the public prosecutor imposed a community service of 150 hours.