The two Dutch security services, the AIVD and MIVD (military security) authorised over 1,000 telephone and internet taps last year, the home affairs ministry was reported as saying on Wednesday.

The AIVD set 1078 taps and the MIVD 53, the figures show.
Security service taps account for only a fraction of the taps approved by the justice ministry. The ministry authorised taps on 26,425 telephones in 2008, the latest year when full figures are available.
The Netherlands sanctions more phone taps per head of population than any other country in the world.