The Ijsseland regional police force supplies only pork-free lunches boxes, in order to take Muslims into consideration.
At first they offered both halal and regular lunch boxes. "But that didn't work," says a spokesperson. There weren't enough, or they didn't get to the right people. "We want to be a diverse force, therefore we take each other into consideration."
Lunch boxes are usually given out only during large-scale police operations. "More police forces do it this way." [Islam in Europe] Read more
