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The first class of BSB operators was trained by the West German police tactical unit Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9) in 1975. The unit achieved operational status in 1976 with 24 men. In the following years, the BSB focussed on providing personal security details to senior military officials (both Dutch and foreign) on domestic and foreign soil.
With the reorganisation of the Dutch police in 1994, the ATs of both the Rijkspolitie and municipal police were restructured to form six interregional ATs. In addition, the AT of the Brigade Speciale Beveiligingsopdrachten (BSB) of the Royal Marechaussee was incorporated as well.
So the smallest regional force counts about 3,000 police officers, while the largest one counts more than 8,000 police employees. There are about 66,000 police employees serving in the Netherlands. Selected police officers may also be deployed in a riot police mobile unit. Mobile units are called in to deal with serious public order offences.
The National Police transferred its airport police and security tasks (primarily Schiphol) to the Marechaussee. In 1998, the Marechaussee became a separate Service within the armed forces. In 2014, a team of 40 Marechausee officers went to eastern Ukraine to assist the investigation into the shooting down of Malaysian airliner MH17 .
Also: Netherlands: People: By occupation: Police officers. Pages in category "Dutch police officers" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
A police officer in the northern Dutch city of Groningen was stabbed in the face when he attempted to check why two young men were outside during the national coronavirus curfew, the city's police ...
A man working for the Dutch government's counterterrorism task-force and a former colleague who joined the police have been arrested on suspicion of leaking state secrets, prosecutors said on ...
ESA trains police officers and soldiers and has trained units from the European Union, such as a special intervention squad of the military police from Poland and the Dutch special task force BSB-KMAR. [13] [14] [15]