(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Police officers should always be sensible, Welten said. "I do not always consider myself an instrument of the government who should immediately do what I am told", he is quoted as saying. It is "a very complicated dilemma", he said, adding that the role of the police is to protect freedom, equality and justice.
Hero Brinkman, a former policeman and MP for the anti-Islam PVV told the Telegraaf Welten's comments are unacceptable. The police should be subject to the government's will, he said, "otherwise we live in a banana republic".
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