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WILLEM HEKMAN

Willem Hekman has worked as Head of Security and Security Advisor of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from 2004. His mission was to improve the standards of the security organisation in the museum and to co-operate with Dick Drent (Head of Security in the Van Gogh Museum) in a project of creating one Central Control Room for (at least) two museums.

From 1964 till 1998 Willem was an officer in the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, doing every thinkable physical training in warm and very cold climates, and also working in several staff jobs all over the world. Besides his work in the Rijksmuseum he is a volunteer in several jobs like taking care of elderly sailors, military men and also physically and mentally handicapped persons.