Quarterly figures 2024 - Private Security Organisations and Investigation Agencies Act (WP

The Netherlands requires security organizations and detective agencies to operate under a permit system. This dataset contains quarterly counts of permissions for managers, licenses for companies, and sanctions issued under the Private Security Organisations and Investigation Agencies Act (Wpbr). The data is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

Use Cases

• Tracking regulatory enforcement trends based on quarterly sanction counts mentioned in the description
• Analyzing the size and growth of the licensed private security sector based on company license figures
• Monitoring personnel authorization levels based on the count of permissions for managers

Strengths

• Data is structured by quarter, allowing for time-series analysis of trends.
• Focuses on a specific, regulated industry sector in the Netherlands.

Limitations

• Row count and data scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from administrative records of permits, licenses, and sanctions.

Time Range

2024, quarterly.

Freshness

Covers the year 2024, but last update date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands.