{"id":119318,"date":"2020-11-05T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=119318"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:13","slug":"police-rotterdam-fed-up-with-students-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/11\/05\/police-rotterdam-fed-up-with-students-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Rotterdam fed up with students’ misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrating Halloween in a flat with 150 people in spite of the corona measures: neighbourhood police officer Shelley van der Veen saw it happen and was forced to intervene, she recounted today on EM TV<\/em>. Student parties put pressure on core police teams. Illegal partygoers run the risk of not only infecting themselves but police officers as well. “My colleagues are stuck in quarantine at home. And that despite the fact that we are actually needed on the streets.”<\/p>\n

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Student parties which fail to heed the corona measures are a thorn in the side of the police. Partygoers bombard police officers who try to intervene. Nor do they keep their distance either, which means that officers are forced to go into quarantine. Shelley van der Veen, the local police officer for Kralingen-Oost, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Excelsior, has often been called to action in recent weeks along with her colleagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get called out several times during each shift because illegal gatherings have been reported,\u201d says Van der Veen. \u201cNot only in the weekend, but on weekdays too. Often these involve large groups of people who then all meet up together.\u201d Saturday 24 October, a student party was held where one hundred people turned up at Xior, a private student housing complex right next to the Erasmus University. Last Saturday, a Halloween party was organised at the same location which 150 students attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis kind of behaviour really exceeds all limits,\u201d says Van der Veen. \u201cWe had to chase after partygoers because they were scared of being fined. We constantly had to warn them to keep their distance from us. As police, you find yourself in an unsafe situation then.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Police officers who come into contact with partygoers infected with corona are subjected to a mandatory quarantine. Last week this happened to ten police officers after they had to break up an illegal party in Alblasserdam. The partygoers refused to end the party and threw chairs and glasses at the officers. \u201cI find that absolutely shocking,\u201d says Van der Veen. \u201cWe are only doing what we have to do. We never intervene in order to annoy people.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a consequence of the quarantine regulations, it is sometimes a bit of a puzzle to deploy enough officers on the streets. \u201cSome core teams have to do that with a skeleton crew. At the moment, we have fewer officers than we would like to have. All the same, the streets really do need to be kept safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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