Incidents involving fake police officers have increased in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the number of incidents of fraudsters impersonating police officers has increased.

It is known that last year about 400 such cases were recorded, and this year already more than 2400. This is reported by NOS with reference to Opsporing Verzocht.

The number of incidents involving fake police officers has increased significantly. Fraudsters pretend to be law enforcers.

According to the police, first of all become elderly people. They receive a call reporting theft in their neighborhood.

Also, the caller offers to quickly send an officer to the place, and that he also took all valuable things from the residents of the neighborhood, seemingly for safekeeping.

It is noted that there are people who have lost all their savings, family heirlooms or artwork.

They conscientiously gave their things for “storage” to the fake police officers.

Law enforcers assume that there may be many more such incidents, because not all victims have turned to the police.

Therefore, they urge everyone who has become a victim of such fraud to report to the police.

The police also urge people to be careful and warn about several groups of attackers operating throughout the Netherlands.

The police note that real police officers never take citizens’ personal belongings with them.

Also, a real law enforcer can always identify himself through his ID card. You can call the official police number for verification.

Police in the Netherlands have released a video of two types of fake agents who defrauded elderly women.