It isn’t a case of telling you something isn’t real. It is sloppy journalism by kids with paper qualifications and there is no one checking them. Both two five letter words in them beginning with R so that will be close enough for them.
Journo’s don’t give a **** about the truth. Newspaper proprietors give even less. It’s all about pushing their own agendas.
There’s a nationally agreed cost per cop per hour etc. And it’s high. I suspect, but I’m not entirely sure, that the Force will make money because the costs they claim are likely to be more than their real actual payout in overtime etc. (For the Police in the ground) which will offset some of their costs Policing away from the stadium. If that’s the case it would be worth them encouraging the club to use as many as possible in the ground (or whatever the cut off point for charging is) I don’t know how they work out the actual cop numbers, but I’ve always assumed that clubs like ours will have a force that are keen to have high numbers on duty in the ground so they have a bit of a cash rake off, whereas in London the Met might struggle to get as many cops free for the amount of games cos of all the other stuff they do. Lots of assumptions in there though I realise.
This is how they calculate the charge to the club Slightly more complicated that FFP though! https://www.npcc.police.uk/SysSiteA...ice-services-april-2023-final-v0.2.pdf#page44
hmmm, seems we're getting some embroidering going on here. i joined the carnegie library in the later 1960s and as someone who lived thereabouts for the first decades of my life can't think where the carnegue car park would be. andrew carnegie wouldn't have had a great deal of time to become a hull city fan before the building was opened, but it's just about possible. i think instead someone's pulling someone's leg(s).
it's one of those plod people that panic as soon as a club he's heard of is coming to visit, especially if he or she can find reference to that club's supporters being involved in hooliganism im his 1975 book of football fan violence. probably inspector syndrome; he seems prone to overreacting. and i think whoever it is really likes 10cc's "rubber bullets". shoot first, think later, at the inquiry if the chielf can't sweep it under the carpet.
So, how come we were paying 5 times what Arsenal were if there is an agreed rate? Surely a 60,000 crowd must have more police than a sub 20,000 one?
They can’t It’s a set charge nationally (although London will be a bit more as London cops get paid more) Where is your figure for our spend and Arsenal’s from?
Yet in the same city the two rugby league clubs (I know some of you dont like this but it is true never the less) can play to capacity crowds, if they wish, without any police on duty. Why? Because they and the RL refuse to pay them. Which is one of the reasons any trouble at RL is swept under the carpet, example, how many were charged with the bottle thowing at the stadium during the Hull RL derby on Good Friday? Can you imagine such an incident go unpunished if it happened last week between City and Leeds? Football is used as a cash cow by the police. They turn up and present the club with a bill. That bill is collosal.
Probably not inside the ground. Not sure if it's the case now, but fairly sure football clubs pay for the police that are actually inside the stadium, not those on duty outside. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I’ve been to most Rovers home matches this season and have not seen one plod.Usually have sniffer dogs though.
