{"id":746,"date":"2025-09-05T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/?page_id=746"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:34:42","slug":"police","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/?page_id=746","title":{"rendered":"Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If the police discovers that you are undocumented, you might either get a reporting duty, or immediately be put in Immigration Detention. Here you find out what can happen and what are your rights.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCheck for papers<\/strong>\nThe police and other \u2018authorities\u2019 may ask anybody above the age of 14 for an identity certificate \u2018if this can reasonably be assumed to be required for performing their duties\u2019.1<\/a>\u00a0 Authorities are almost all people who have supervising responsibilities. Checks tend to be held in cases of fare dodging, illegal employment and at football stadiums. If asked for documents, a valid identity certificate can be either a Dutch passport, ID-document or such document from an EU-country, or a Dutch residence permit. In most cases, a Dutch or EU drivers licence is also considered a valid identity certificate.2<\/a>\n\nIf you have no identity certificate, a \u2018reasonable suspicion of illegal residence\u2019 may arise. In these cases the police are allowed to ask you to show your residence permit.3<\/a>\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have a residence permit, they may check your fingerprints to see if your identity is registered in the Dutch or EU foreigners-database. The fact that someone does not speak Dutch or has no identity certificate is not enough reason in itself for a reasonable suspicion of illegal residence.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWarrant needed to enter someones house\n<\/strong>Normally the police need the residents\u2019 approval before entering a residence or a room that serves as housing accommodation; they are only allowed to enter without approval if they have a warrant to enter a dwelling.\n\nBut the authorities are allowed to enter the housing accommodation without such a warrant if there is a \u2018reasonable suspicion of illegal residence\u2019.1<\/a>\u00a0 In the following cases a \u2018reasonable suspicion of illegal residence\u2019 is assumed: if there is information provided by government services, the police, by traffic police or by the labour inspectorate or if there are reliable tips. The police are also always allowed to search premises if there is a suspicion that somebody is present whose application for a residence permit has been denied.\n\nIn all these cases, the police are allowed to check ID\u2019s of all people who are present.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter discovery of illegal residence\n<\/strong>If the police check up on you and you cannot show your identity certificate or your residence permit, the police are allowed to detain you for 6 hours (nightly hours between 0-09h don\u2019t count).1<\/a>\u00a0 If further investigation is required this period of time can be extended by 48 hours.2<\/a> \u00a0This requires the Superintendent\u2019s approval.\n\nYou have the right to get advice from a lawyer before you are interviewed. You can ask for your lawyer of preference, if you have one. If you asked for a lawyer and the lawyer cannot be present within 2 hrs, then the interview may take place anyway. During the interview, you have the right to an interpreter to express yourself better.\n\nAfter the investigation, the police can decide to detain you to prepare your deportation. You will first be placed in a police cell. From there, you have to be transferred within 24 hours to a specialized Immigration Detention Centre.\n\nInvestigation of personal effects\n<\/strong>Once there is a \u2018reasonable suspicion of illegal residence\u2019 the police are allowed to examine your personal effects such as your bag, your phone and your housing accommodation.3<\/a> \u00a0In this way the police want to obtain information about your identity and your country of origin.\n\nIn some cases the police will visit and question your acquaintances, for example about your nationality. Your acquaintances are not obliged to answer these questions.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Immigration detention to prepare deportation
<\/strong>Immigration Detention is an ultimate measure. The police has to consider whether a less severe measure can be applied. This might be the case if the person concerned has a fixed abode or if reliable private persons act as guarantors. But if you neglected return orders more often, these reasons don\u2019t count. If you have a passport and you have bought a ticket yourself, Immigration Detention can be discontinued because this shows that you are co-operating with your return.<\/p>

Immigration Detention normally may last for a maximum of 18 months. After 6 months, detention can only be extended if you do not cooperate with return, or if the embassy will issue documents quickly.<\/p>

Children can be placed in Immigration Detention for at most 2 weeks, except when they (or their parents) apply for a residence permit. Children cannot be separated from their parents.<\/p>

Access to legal aid
<\/strong>If you are in Immigration Detention you are entitled to a lawyer free of charge. This may be your own lawyer but also a duty lawyer. This lawyer can lodge a complaint in Court against the detention or against the continuation of the detention. During the first court case it will be investigated whether it was actually allowed to check your identity, to detain you, and whether there is a prospect of deportation. In all follow-up cases the main issue will be the \u2018prospect of deportation\u2019.<\/p>

Most court cases have to be applied for by the lawyer. This applies to the first court case about the lawfulness of the detention, for interim assessments as well as for the request for the discontinuation of the detention after 6 months. Only if the lawyer has not brought an appeal against the detention of aliens, the authorities have to do this within 28 days.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Home If the police discovers that you are undocumented, you might either get a reporting duty, or immediately be put in Immigration Detention. Here you find out what can happen and what are your rights. Stop & search\/frisk Check for papers The police and other \u2018authorities\u2019 may ask anybody above the age of 14 for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-746","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicrights.frd-delta.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}