Preventive Frisking again permitted by Rotterdam Police

A series of violent incidents has recently taken place in the center of Rotterdam. As a result, Mayor Ivo Opstelten has authorized the police to carry out preventive frisking in the area for the next six months. It is the tenth time that this has been permitted; the previous period ended in the middle of September. Any person can be frisked for the presence of weapons or ammunition; all cars and luggage can be searched .


http://www.ad.nl/rotterdam/article1771149.ece

*For earlier limitations on civil liberties such as permitting preventive arrests and the right to gather in Amsterdam and Utrecht, see:
October 18:
http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2007/10/
preventive-arrests-authorized-in.html
October 21:
http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2007/10/
university-of-utrecht-2006-academic.html
October 23:
http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2007/10/
prohibition-of-assembly-in-troubled.html