European Institute for Gender Equality
European Institute for Gender Equality

National Police Database (BVH)

Types of GBV

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Rape
  • Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking

Sexual Harassment is not registered under its own code, sexual assault, rape and stalking have their own codes , intimate partner violence is an indirect social classification, when recording for example rape an option pops up in the screen of the police officer to link the rape to Intimate Partner Violence

Other purpose: 

Cases administration by police.

Data available on

Victim

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants

Relationship with perpetrator

Yes

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

No information available

Perpetrator

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants
Other: 

BVH registers criminal files as well, containing information on the alleged offender.

Relationship with victim

Yes
Additional information: 

This means that it is recorded whether there exists a previous relationship between victim and offender (e.g. family, intimate partner) or not (stranger).

Re-offending

No

Witness

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants

Relationship with victim/perpetrator

No information available

Incident description by witness

Yes

Children witnessing IPV incident

Yes

Not systematically, not an obligated field.

Incident

Code system used

  • Specific to organisation

Incident code/maatschappelijke klasse aanduiding, see Informatie Model Politie (IMP)

Description of incident

  • Date/time
  • Harm/injuries
  • Location
  • Type of violence
Other: 

Date and location of incident.

Protection order

Yes

Police is in charge of issuing restraining order (placing offender out of the home in cases of IPV), however this is not systematically recorded as some police forces use the application "Huisverbod Online", which falls outside BVH.

Civil justice data

Yes
Additional information: 

Police is in charge of issuing restraining order (placing offender out of the home in cases of IPV), however this is not systematically recorded as some police forces use the application "Huisverbod Online", which falls outside BVH.

Incident respond resources

No information collected on Incident respond resources

Prosecution process

Stages of prosecution process

  • Withdrawals of complaints
  • Withdrawals of prosecution support
  • N. of cases reported for each incident
  • N. of cases initiated for each type of incident
  • N. of cases referred to court
  • Types of offense(s)

Defendant pleas/verdicts

No information collected on Defendant pleas/verdicts

Average time case through criminal justice system

No

Outcomes

Perpetrator

N. of cases resulting in arrest

No

Charged with more than one offense

Yes

List of offenses

Yes

Probation

No

Bail/remand

No

Prisons

No

Victim

Death as result of incident

No information available

Characteristics

Storage System

  • In paper form
  • Electronically (single files)
  • Electronically (database)
Other: 

The police uses the system Basis Voorziening Handhaving (BVH) for its administration of cases, record information on incidents. The information in the BHV has been made accessible and comparable though the GIDS database ("Geïntegreerde Interactieve Databank voor Strategische bedrijfsinformatie"). GIDS has is own definitions and counting rules.

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Quality assurance process

Details on persons are cross checked with the Municipality data (Gegevens Basis Administratie or GBA). Moreover the police has done a few samples to check the quality of their data (including the linking of cases to the domestic violence project code), as all police forces had changed their system to BVH in 2009. The sample showed that most cases information was accurately file din, but not 100% still. Moreover data on Protection Orders is very unreliable, as some regions enter that information in BVH, while others use a different application outside of BVH called "Huisverbod Online".

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

This has improved since the introduction of a national system (BHV) and using the national database GIDS

Timeliness

No information available

Current developments

Development of data collection system.

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
National Statistics Office, Police
Used by third parties: 
Yes (partly)

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender

CBS uses BVH/GIDS data for their Handhaving and Criminaliteit report. see http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/F6EDB36D-B71B-4044-98F6-733EE252E289/0/20...

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
National Functional Manager (BVH) (landelijke functioneel beheerder)
Sector:
Police
Geographical area: 
National
Geographical area remarks: 

The system is split up in geographical regions (police force regions)