TAYL-I28 Response Historic

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 formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Sources
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Jurisdiction
UK-wide
Response
Historic

No government response recorded.

Source
Inquiry Taylor Inquiry
Report Taylor Inquiry — Interim Report 29 Jan 1990
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Themes & Tags
Poor sporting event stewarding
Recommendation age 36.3 yrs
Last formal update No formal updates