In general, the Commission prefers to encourage development and reliance upon such technical surveillance tools, including directional microphones and audio bugs, instead of on more risky human sources. The need for a proper legislative framework and for oversight is recognized so that more intrusive methods will require increasingly higher authorities to authorize their use. Therefore, a new and more solid legal framework is required to oversee the security service, funnel its activity and put all intelligence methods into an explicit legal framework. The Commission emphasizes the increasingly serious efforts by indigenous criminal groups, mainly in the Amsterdam area, to mount full-blown counterintelligence operations against the police and judicial authorities. Criminal countersurveillance teams almost continuously monitor and follow covert police surveillance teams and relay their information to criminals.
Some groups even run informants inside the police.
In the recent past, police investigations against Yugoslav criminals have been reduced following serious threats against the lives of police officers. Police and justice department personnel have been instructed not to react in public before parliament has had its say, and the Justice and the Interior ministers will react only after consultation with Prime Minister Whim Kok. As the Commission covers the entire political spectrum and carries great weight, its conclusions stand a good chance of being adopted. This would result in a fundamental reform of Dutch prosecution which will become more similar to the American system with all evidence presented in open court. The main flaw of the otherwise very strong report is the fact that it blames everyone, which could mean, at the end of the day, nobody is in a position to cast the first stone and clean out the stables.