The National Expertise Centre on Diversity of the Police operates a regional online hate crime form for victims to report such crimes to police. The website includes the possibility of anonymous reporting. The Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations also introduced a campaign to raise awareness on the importance of reporting hate crimes. A conference, held every two years, on a united effort to combat hate crimes took place with relevant actors such as the government, NGOs and the police. It was decided to improve co-ordination by following agreed definitions and publishing reports during the same period, progressing towards creating a combined report.
The local police and two NGOs (COC Leiden, an LGBT organization, and the Office for Discrimination Issues of the Hollands Midden and Haaglanden region) launched a website where victims can report incidents online.
Official figures record 761 crimes based on bias against ethnic origin.
Official figures record 209 anti-Semitic crimes.
Official figures record three attacks on mosques and 93 unspecified crimes based on bias against Muslims.
Official figures record 11 crimes based on bias against Christians and 9 based on bias against non-specified religions.
Official figures record 428 crimes based on bias against LGBT people.
Police figures record 5 crimes based on bias against people with disabilities.
This figure includes 10 crimes based on bias against sex, three crimes based on bias against members of no religion, 113 crimes based on bias against political belief and 649 cases based on an unspecified bias.
The Turks Forum-Netherlands reported an attack on a property associated with Turks.
The Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël (CIDI) reported 167 anti-Semitic incidents. Among these were four cases of assault, six of threats, nine cases of the vandalization of synagogues, cemeteries and monuments, and 16 other cases of vandalism and graffiti. The Stephen Roth Institute reported eight violent incidents.
The Turks Forum-Netherlands reported four incidents of the desecration of mosques, two arson attacks and one verbal threat.