The Number of Reports and Complaints of Sexual Offenses Received by the Police Has Remained High After An Increase Last Year. In The First Six Months of This Year, The Police Received Nearly 8,000 Reports and over 2,000 Complaints of Sexual Offenses.
Press Agency ANP Reports, Based on Figures requested from the Police, That Approximately The Same Number Of Reports And Complaints Were Made In The First Half of 2025 AS In The Last Half of 2024. Compared To The First Six Monhs Of Inion In Inion In in in in inests of 2024, This Repenterts or Thiss of In In in in in in in in in in in in in in inpes of in inpenterts Percent in the number of complaints.
The Police Saw a Significant Increase In The Number Of Reports and Complaints Last Year After The Sexual Offenses Act was introduced. “Since July 1, 2024, there is a quicker finding of criminal liability, namely when there are clear signals that someone does not want sex, but the other person continues anyway. Coercion is no longer a requirement liability,” “liability,” ” ANP . “Certainly after the introduction of the new law, there is more that is punishable and we can Therefore help Better.”
It is Unclear Whether Sexual Offenses Actually Occur More Often. Accordance to van Lier, People Seem More Willing to Seek Help and Go to the Police. This is Possible also a result of “the increased Attention to the subject and the social debate that has aris about it.”
Regarding the “Recent, Serious Sexual Offenses in our country,” Van Lier Says That in Most Cases, The Victim and Perpetrator Know Each Other. “Incidents where the victim and perpetrator are complete strangers to each other and where some is attacked out of nowhere occur the least.”
Peak in Reports and Complaints After the Voice
The Number of Reports of Sexual Offenses is Almost as High As in the First Half of 2022. The Number of Complaints is equally Slightly Highher.
Accordance to the Police, The Peak in 2022 was Mainly Caaated by the Reports of Transgressive Behavior at the Voice of Holland .
A complaint does not necessarily mean that a crime has actual leg committed. The Police and the Public Prosecution Service Are Still Investigating Whether Criminal Offenses Have Been Committed.