What do you need to know
Criminal Activities
You can report (suspicion of) criminal activities to the municipality, the police or anonymously. For example:
- Drugs, for example a cannabis farm
- Fraud, corruption or money laundering
- Human trafficking or exploitation of people
- Violence
- Burglaries or theft
- Nuisance of a person or of groups
- Healthcare fraud, or healthcare crime (for example, money that ends up in the pockets of criminals for care that has not been provided).
Working together to ensure a safe neighborhood
Approximately 150 WhatsApp neighborhood watch groups (WABP) are active in Hilversum. In these groups, residents keep each other informed of suspicious situations. This helps identify and prevent problems more quickly.
Would you also like to contribute to a safe neighborhood? Then sign up for a WABP group in your area . Signing up is easy and free.
undermining
Subversion is a form of crime in which the boundaries between the upper world ('ordinary' society) and the underworld (criminals) blur. The criminals need the upper world to carry out their criminal activities.
This is how you recognize undermining
- Rent a property and start a hemp plantation in it
- Renting a car and transporting illegal items or committing a thief
- Starting a (so called) business to launder money
The activities of criminals often take place secretly. But for those who pay attention, things are visible. Think of:
- A shop, restaurant, nail studio where (almost) never a customer comes
- A car company that is never open during the day
- A tenant who only wants to pay large amounts in cash
- A house where unknown people walk in and out at all kinds of times
- A business property that always has a different owner
Mention
No concrete violations, but do you still get a strange gut feeling about a certain situation, like the situations above? Report it. This is completely anonymous. Your report might be the final piece of the puzzle we are looking for.
This is how you recognize a cannabis farm
- strange smell
- Fogged or taped windows
- Activities at night around the property
- Visitors who stay short
- No snow on the roof
This is how you recognize money laundering
- A building has been empty for a long time
- No company website
- Not everything is credited to the cash register
- Business continues to exist even if there are (almost) no customers
- Preference for cash payment and/or a lot of cash in your pocket
- There is never activity in a building where you would expect it
How to recognize human trafficking
- Not having your own proof of identity
- Not knowing your own home address
- Long working days
- People are taken to work and picked up again
- A lot of people live in 1 house at the same time
- Signs of Violence
- Have to hand over earned money to someone else
- In addition to work, employment agency or employer also arranges housing or transport, for example
- Bad working and/or living conditions
- Person is always accompanied by others
What do you have to do
Always report suspicions of subversive activity.
- If you see something happening (red-handed) call immediately 112.
- If you suspect that something is not right, call the police via 0900-8844 or report your suspicion via Meld Misdaad Anoniem 0800-7000.
- If you witness domestic violence or if you suspect domestic violence, you can report this to Safe at Home via 0800-2000.
