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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
World Cup crackdown on football hooligans to be announced
Plans for a crackdown on English football hooligans at this year's
World Cup are to be announced and it is expected that uniformed UK
police officers will be on the streets of Germany.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke will provide details of the plans and a
number of plain-clothes "spotters" will also be used, however, it is
believed that the British police will not have any powers of arrest.
And a small number of German officers will also be placed in British
ports to help screen football fans on their way to the event.
More than 3,000 banning orders to stop known troublemakers from
travelling to Germany will also be in force and the plans are the
result of long security discussions between the British and German
authorities.
A team from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will probably
be on hand to help with gaining evidence, and as many as 100 police
officers from Britain.
Last November, the Home Office said that the tournament in Germany
would pose "a greater challenge" than other recent competitions with
"potentially high risk matches looming on the horizon", and it said it
wanted to make changes to legislation to allow CPS staff with
specialist football legislation knowledge to be able to apply for
football banning orders where the evidence was gained overseas.
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