Amsterdam police object to civilian observers – and call in their own

Team of civilians has been deployed to make sure random searches will not involve racial profiling

A policy of randomly frisking people on the streets of Amsterdam is being trialled by police in response to a rise in youth gun crime but the police union has objected to the involvement of civilian observers.

To assuage fears that the searches will involve ethnic profiling, a team of civilian monitors has been deployed tasked with reporting on any suspicious patterns.