Police Communication Failure During New Year’s Eve Leads to Incidents in Netherlands
During the New Year’s Eve celebrations in the Netherlands, the police’s communication network, C2000, experienced a malfunction, leading to significant frustration among law enforcement officials. Chief Police Officer Janny Knol highlighted that this outage hindered officers on the street from effectively communicating with the control room. Despite the backup system functioning, several incidents of violence against police officers occurred, prompting calls for stricter measures such as a nationwide fireworks ban to address increasing violence towards emergency services.