I think it's great that they have time to do that. I'm happy that somebody in this country has working public services.

I'm just honestly surprised. I've only lived in Amsterdam inside The Netherlands and wouldn't expect the police to respond to something like that.

    > it’s not a “search a whole neighborhood” situation

In retrospect I may have misread this:

    > They gave the police the exact
    > coordinates of my car and it only
    > took the surveilling car 5 minutes
    > to get to the car

I thought they had somewhat correct coordinates, but took 5 minutes to drive around the area to locate the car, as opposed to 5 minutes from wherever they were located before.

In any case, it doesn't make much difference. I think if someone called the police here in Amsterdam with the exact location of a broken-in car they'd say tough titty and have the owner show up at the closest station and file a police report.