Half-year sentence for violence against police

Severe cases of violence against police officers should be punished with at least six months in prison.

The Social Democratic minister Maas wants better protection with new rules, other law enforcement officials and social workers such as firefighters and ambulance personnel. He wants to expand the concept ' serious violence '' that previously there is the offense where later the minimum sentence on it.

An attack by several people at once, like protesters, says Maas ' very serious'. An attacker who carries with him a weapon or dangerous object, commits according to the plans of the Minister very serious violence, even though he used or not that weapon. Maas presents his bill in his own words before the end of the year.