1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:05,480 What is happening in the Netherlands with regard to radicalisation and extremism? 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,880 And what terrorist threats does the Netherlands face? 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,460 These questions are answered three times a year in the Terrorist Threat Assessment for the Netherlands: 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:15,660 The DTN. 5 00:00:16,820 --> 00:00:20,100 The National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:21,760 the NCTV, 7 00:00:22,020 --> 00:00:27,120 draws up the DTN on the basis of information from the intelligence and security services, 8 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:32,860 the police, Dutch embassies, and open sources such as the media and the internet. 9 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,820 The analysis presented in the DTN is used to set a threat level: 10 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:43,180 an assessment of the risk of a terrorist attack taking place in the Netherlands. 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,980 When the first DTN was published in 2005 there were four threat levels. 12 00:00:47,380 --> 00:00:49,640 A fifth was added in 2016. 13 00:00:52,060 --> 00:00:57,440 Only once, on 18 March 2019, in the hours immediately following the attack on a tram in Utrecht, 14 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:03,960 has the threat level been raised to level 5, the highest level, and only for the province of Utrecht. 15 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:10,520 The most recent DTN analysis sets the terrorist threat in the Netherlands at significant: 16 00:01:11,060 --> 00:01:12,060 level 3. 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,640 At english.nctv.nl, everyone can read the DTN... 18 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,500 and see what developments have led to the current threat level.