As a district public prosecutor's office, we receive many judgments from the Court of Appeal that include an opinion on the case. Interesting judgments are published by the Court on Rechtspraak.nl. The officer who was involved in the case also receives a copy of the judgment (if all goes well). The vast majority of judgments do not reach beyond the parties directly involved. And yet we feel that we can learn more from the statements. But how? How do you select the statements that matter and what can you then do with those statements (certainly within but possibly also outside the Public Prosecution Service) in order to learn more from them?

A way of working that includes previous cases and helps to optimalise the work done by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service.