The municipality of Amsterdam is considering a police mobile bodyscanners to give as a supplement to preventative searches. The city is investigating the use, but there is criticism on the possible privacy-infringement of ‘the clothes look’.
The Amsterdam police is doing research into the use of so-called mobile scan-poles, which, thanks to the x-ray images of the body without clothes is a barrier. There it is examined if the body scans have been an effective complement to preventive searches. That has the mayor of the city, Van der Laan, last week to the city council to let them know.
The fraction of D66 is vehemently against the plan and wants the investigations stop immediately. “Preventative searches is already a heavy waist; you will stand, selected and from head to toe, searched”, says D66 leader Jan Paternotte. “A mobile body scanners help in finding that with radiation by clothing can look, is really a number of steps too far. The police do not have everything of the Native to know.”
The studies are striking because the European Commission the use of bodyscanners on the basis of x-ray radiation has forbidden. Scanners on the basis of millimetergolven are allowed. The Erasmus University and the TU Delft to do research on the legal and technical feasibility of mobile scanners on the basis of the millimeter radio technology. The Ministry of Home Affairs has developed a half million euros will be made available.