<i>Is that still an issue?</i><p>It&#x27;s unclear if the practice was entirely abolished, since it was introduced as a reinterpretation of existing law (where have we seen that before?) and has never been challenged in court. But this required a lot of dedicated police presence, and was targeted only towards <i>specific individuals</i>, when sanctioned by an <i>elected offical</i>.<p>It appears the practice was silently discarded because it yielded no results: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpdetijd.nl&#x2F;2009-07-10&#x2F;zin-en-onzin-van-terrorrismebestrijding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpdetijd.nl&#x2F;2009-07-10&#x2F;zin-en-onzin-van-terrorris...</a> (complete evaluation report is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nctv.nl&#x2F;Images&#x2F;evaluatie-ct-2011_tcm126-444048.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nctv.nl&#x2F;Images&#x2F;evaluatie-ct-2011_tcm126-444048.p...</a>, link in article is dead).