Police in Amsterdam has for the first time patrolled a public transport bus while they were wearing civilian clothes instead of their uniforms.
Nineteen school children were apprehended for misbehavior, including threats against fellow passengers.
Over the past year Holland has seen a wave of attacks against public transport workers.
An Irish drug dealer whose remains have been found in an Amsterdam canal had fled Ireland to avoid imprisonment and to escape gang members who held him responsible for revealing information that led to discovery of their drugs factory.
Amsterdam police found his remains three weeks ago in the water near Diemerzeedijk.
The body of Keith Ennis (30), from Clondalkin, Dublin, had been dismembered and stuffed into bags, suitcases and trash bags.
Police in Amsterdam have arrested a thirty-year-old suspect in the stabbing death of a 69-year-old man at a school yard two days ago.
At the time of his arrest the suspect was carrying a knife.
An adult man has been stabbed to death at or in front of a schoolyard in Amsterdam South this afternoon.
Police reportedly do not yet know his identity, but say he was 60+ years old.
A number of school children are said to have witnessed the stabbing.
Prostitutes, friends and family members of a prostitute murdered in Amsterdam’s Red Light District last week are holding a silent march in her memory today.
‘Berti,’ a 19-year-old woman from Hungary, was stabbed to death in her work room as she was about to leave for home.
Amsterdam police today announced that have arrested a 46-year old man last Saturday night on suspicion of involvement in the stabbing death of a 19-year old prostitute.
The murdered woman’s body was found last Friday in her work room at Oudezijds Achterburgwal, in Amsterdam’s Red Light District.
Amsterdam police is investigating the stabbing death of a 19-year old prostitute.
It is the 13th time that a prostitute has been murdered in Amsterdam since 1990.