Every month, the team of 33-year-old Thijs and 26-year-old Rachel, together with about twenty colleagues in plain clothes and in uniform, clean the Red Light District. Street robbers and drug dealers are caught and arrested.
28-year-old Ilona and 36-year-old Tamara have really been through it all as they drive the 112 calls from the emergency room. They are trained to de-escalate, but when they have to, they absolutely hold their own.
During the Champions League match between Ajax and Tottenham Hotspur, all agents of Bureau Burgwallen are at work. And not only them, also the platoons of the ME. British fans are notorious.
Report series in which Ewout Genemans closely follows the agents of Bureau Burgwallen. From the desk, from the car and after violent arrests or charges.
Every available agent of Bureau Burgwallen works on King's Day. Amsterdam expects hundreds of thousands of visitors. Jan and Lieke have to look for a boy in an orange sweater who is said to have stolen a bag. Mayor Halsema invites Jan and Lieke for a conversation, after they both suffered concussions during an arrest a few months ago.
The city's undercover team is housed on the 4th floor of Bureau Burgwallen. 12 officers from various neighborhood teams work together in the so-called target group team. Every day they work undercover in the center to tackle street crime.
The commemoration of death on Dam Square is the most exciting moment of the year for many agents of Bureau Burgwallen. Nine years ago, the dam-screamer disrupted the two-minute silence and dozens were injured.
Amsterdam has hundreds of homeless people. It regularly happens that the officers turn out for the homeless who cause nuisance. The police officers of Bureau Burgwallen do everything they can to get homeless people into a shelter.
