After Amsterdam, Eindhoven and The Hague, this season Ewout Genemans will join the police in Arnhem, the capital of Gelderland. For eighty days, the programmer closely follows twelve agents to get to know the person behind the uniform and experience the most diverse things. In one of the episodes, which has since been taken offline, this season, police officers Bas and Marleen receive a report from a young boy at the station. He let onlookers know that he no longer sees life.
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Unaware, his mother watches the episode when she suddenly sees her son in the photo. Although the boy in question is not visible in the photo, she immediately sees that it is her son. “This was my son,” she says under a pseudonym. “He didn’t even know that tapes had been made. Bizarre. Really bizarre.”
For the function of public guard, it is allowed to film on the public road as in Arnhem office it happens, police spokesman Sven Strijbosch explains to the newspaper. According to Strijbosch, it is not necessary to inform the mother or other relatives of the young man on the track in Duiven, because he is of age. In fact, being of age, his mother may not even be informed on the basis of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
His mother is also told by the police that it is legally allowed. “I was speechless and sad. The next day I called RTL. The images were removed within hours.” The broadcast can no longer be viewed on Videoland as well. “Of course we understand the precarious personal situation”, is RTL’s response. “After contact with his mother, we then removed the fragment from the episode.”
Arnhem office it is visible every Tuesday evening at 20:30 on RTL 4 and Videoland.
