- Rotterdam police have filmed riots at soccer matches and posted images of suspects on their Web site, “drawing complaints from privacy groups,” says the Associated Press.

Dutch police also recently sent 17,000 text messages to the mobile phones of fans who marred a Rotterdam soccer match by rioting “before, during and after, it says.

“ Two train cars were vandalized beyond repair, 43 fans were arrested and 47 police officers and an unknown number of fans were injured,” it says, going on:

“Phone companies voluntarily handed over the mobile numbers of people who were in or around the stadium that day. The companies did not give individual names to police, and police sent a standard message asking people to come forward if they had information.

But four suspects, apparently under the impression they’d been identified, “contacted police Wednesday, and a fifth turned himself in directly,” AP has Rotterdam police spokesman Ger de Jong saying.

See:-
Associated Press - Dutch Police Use Text Messages in Hunt, August 31, 2005