Dutch police hiding statistics revealing asylum seeker’s involvement in crime, even attempting to bribe journalists into ignoring the topic, it has been claimed.

The national police force of the Netherlands admitted trying to cut a deal with the country’s largest newspaper, which claimed to have been offered leads and exclusive stories if they dropped a freedom of information request on the number of asylum seekers involved in crime.

However, the police denied this amounted to a cover-up, claiming they wanted the figures to remain secret as they could be “misleading” to the public. They statistics have still not been published.

“Unfortunately, this approach makes it look like police seek to ignore facts that are socially sensitive. Nothing is less true”, police chief executive Erik Akerboom said in a statement this Monday.

Mr. Akerboom and the force was responding to an article in De Telegraaf, published over the weekend, revealing the underhand deal proposed to them by police.

“Initially, the police had denied to this newspaper that they even collected data on crime among foreigners seeking asylum”, the paper explained, claiming the police then change their reason to “keep the figures under the hat” as the subject “remains taboo”.

The paper said they filed the freedom of information request as they wanted to investigate the cause of a spike in pick-pocketing and petty crime. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/04/dutch-police-allegedly-b...