A former police officer from Rotterdam has been sentenced to four months in prison and 180 hours of community service for corruption. The 30-year-old man from Berkel en Rodenrijs passed on information from police systems to acquaintances.
The court considers it proven that the former agent deliberately entered servers of the National Police in the period from March 4, 2019 to October 1, 2020 and provided information to others.
“The suspect has not only been guilty of privacy violation with his actions, but has also infringed the integrity of the police and judicial authorities by requesting and sharing the confidential information,” the court said in the judgment.
Private Purposes
According to the Public Prosecution Service, the suspect looked into the police systems daily for his work, but in 10 percent of the cases it was for private purposes, the regional broadcaster writes Rijnmond.
In one case, he would have checked a number plate for a woman of a car that had been driven on after an accident, Rijnmond wrote in a earlier article about the case. He also looked up well-known Dutch people through the systems, according to justice, who accused him of a loose morality.
The suspect has to serve 26 days of the four months in prison, the rest is suspended. The sentence is lower than the twenty months in prison that the justice had demanded. The judiciary also wanted him to be banned from performing a public function for five years, but the court will refrain from doing so.
The suspect was released last November along with thirteen others detained in a major investigation into drug trafficking. Among them were four main suspects who allegedly form a criminal organization that imports drugs via the port in Rotterdam.
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