“With a few mouse clicks, municipalities can find out what goes on behind the facade of a retail store,” explains Demir. “Now that sometimes takes months of detective work. The platform makes it possible to detect shady businesses that are engaged in drug crime or money laundering more quickly, for example.”
“We are now going to test it in the test areas,” said the minister. “If all goes well, we will roll it out throughout Flanders. Now we notice that local crime is shifting from cities where enforcement is heavily enforced, to cities or areas where this is less the case. Then that is mopping with the tap open.”
In addition, Minister Demir also wants to test the platform at the environmental inspection. “We also see a lot of violations of environmental legislation. Just think of manure fraud or drug waste that is dumped in nature reserves,” says Demir. “That is why the environmental inspectorate will also work with the instrument in a test phase.”
The whole system would cost 250,000 euros.
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