The municipalities of Rotterdam, Leeuwarden and Utrecht will experiment with the digital reporting requirement for nuisance soccer supporters. This allows municipalities to check whether rioters with a restraining order comply. During the experiment, use is made of a small portable box: the Mini-ID, which complies with the reporting requirement by reading a fingerprint. In the experiment, we are testing the reporting process and technology. The experiment is expected to start in November.
The mayor can impose an administrative area ban on people who have disrupted public order. The mayor may attach an obligation to report to ensure that someone does not enter the prohibited area. For example, near a soccer stadium where a game is being played at that time. Currently, persons with an obligation to report must still report to the police station at a certain time. In practice, a physical obligation to report is now rarely imposed, because it is considered a heavy tool that may be disproportionate to the offense, and because it takes up the capacity of the police who have to receive and register the reporting person on location.
A digital obligation to report is already possible by law but is not yet imposed in practice because the technology is still under development. The Ministry of Justice and Security, together with the municipalities of Rotterdam, Leeuwarden and Utrecht, will test this technique with the Mini-ID experiment. With this small, portable box, those obliged to report can report themselves and it will be registered if someone does not comply with the restraining order. Identification of the reporting party takes place beforehand by means of a fingerprint. The experiment looks at the reliability of the system, security and privacy of users, among other things.
In the first phase of the experiment, 10 volunteers from the participating organizations will carry the Mini-ID. They will be given a fictitious area ban and will have to report at certain times over a two-month period. In this phase, subjects will test the technical and organizational functioning of the Mini-ID. In the second testing phase, individuals who actually have an area ban with a reporting requirement will start using the Mini ID. In this phase, in addition to test subjects, reporting agents from the three municipalities who actually have an area ban combined with a reporting obligation will participate.
