TAYL-I28 Response Historic AI-assessed

Operational orders must ensure police cope with crowd movement and deploy reserves

Recommendation

The Operational Order for each match at a designated stadium should enable the police to cope with any foreseeable pattern in the arrival of spectators at a match and in their departure. It should provide for sufficient reserves to enable rapid deployment of officers to be made at any point inside or outside the ground.

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
No specific government response or evidence regarding Operational Orders enabling police to manage spectator arrival and departure patterns and provide for officer reserves, as recommended by the Taylor Inquiry, has been identified in the provided public sources. Searches on gov.uk for Taylor Inquiry implementation and government response did not yield specific documents related to this recommendation. The Taylor Inquiry was published in 1990, and no further published evidence has been identified since then.
How was this assessed?
Assessed by gemini-2.5-flash on 19 Mar 2026
Checked data held on this site (government responses, progress updates, independent evidence)
External sources searched: www.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk, hansard.parliament.uk
Jurisdiction
UK-wide
Response
Historic

No government response recorded.

Source
Report Taylor Inquiry — Interim Report 29 Jan 1990
Recommendation age 36.1 yrs
Last formal update No formal updates