Wegmisbruikers (2003)

Wegmisbruikers (initially Wegmisbruikers!) was a Dutch television program broadcast by SBS6 from 2003 to 2021 all 25 seasons presented by André van der Toorn. Koos Spee, founder of the Bureau Verkeershandhaving Openbaar Ministerie (BVOM) and until 2009 national traffic prosecutor, was a regular guest on the program from 2007. Spee provided information about rules and, together with Van der Toorn, looked at what road users were doing wrong and how things should actually be done. In the program, a camera crew accompanied various unobtrusive police surveillance vehicles in various regions of the Netherlands. Road users who did not obey traffic rules were stopped and often given a fine. Footage was used from both the camera car and the television crew's camera. After the stop, the production asked if the road user wanted to be recognizable in the picture. In the first seasons, a thumb (a plastic hand in which a thumb raised implies that the recipient did well) was handed out to passersby who correctly guessed the meaning of a displayed road sign. Since 2018, due to the AVG legislation, violators were made unrecognizable by default and their voices were distorted, and in recent seasons, footage from the bodycams of the surveillance officers was also used.