Football clubs should pay towards £70m policing cost, Met chief says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx2338z971o
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Football clubs should pay towards £70m policing cost, Met chief says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx2338z971o
Posted by upthetruth1
23 Comments
A few weeks ago, the police were asking the government for more money to police Notting Hill Carnival, and responses have been that NHC should contribute financially to policing. Now, the police are asking for football clubs to contribute financially to policing.
In the long run, it seems the police will be asking for organisers and organisations that have large-scale events to start contributing financially to policing.
I always thought clubs did? Considering the extra policing you need for football games (especially high profile ones) feels only right they should pay
Seems fair, they’re ticketed events and they’re requiring police time. Why should tax payers pay for football games to be policed when a scrap of the ticket price could easily pay for it. especially in times of rife police underfunding.
Sounds fair to me. If places making profit but require a police presence to keep the peace, they should pay for it.
I went through the CRP training in order to become a PCSO. I quit after completion for a few reasons. But one moment in particular that stood out was a fellow trainee who openly debated that it was his wife’s duty to have sex with him whenever he wanted, and didn’t understand the point of view that she may not want to. This was brought up when talking about dealing with domestic abuse cases.
I know this person to be in the Met police now.
If they want more money, they need to consider the amount of money they are currently wasting.
This is something which always puzzles me
If a protests rocks up or and requires police intervention then should they also have to pay?
It seems weird that you have to pay extra for policing but I get why it’s done
Or maybe the club owners could pay their taxes in the UK rather than abroad?
Do the companies that arrange gigs and events pay for the policing of them? Genuine question as I don’t know.
If they do then I think the same should apply to clubs.
I kinda assumed they would already have to pay for policing. If Glastonbury festival (which is a charity) has to pay towards policing why shouldn’t all large events? It’s just the cost of doing business.
Private businesses paying the police is a slippery slope to the police being a private security force, with conflicts of interest.
They should.
As should the organisers of all these protests
Wtf? Why aren’t they paying?! I don’t want my tax money going towards paying for this shit sport because people are thugs and can’t accept their team losing like fucking children.
I’d go one step further and put the financial burden on the Premier League. £70m is pocket change for them and it would be a helping hand to the rest of the football pyramid.
Most clubs outside the top couple of divisions are struggling financially, not seeing much of that Premier League money dripping down. As they’ve stopped FA Cup replays that was a source of cash for the lower leagues because the poor Premier League players need to save their energy for the tours of the Middle East at the end of the season, maybe the money can come from Premier League teams??
The sheer amount of money in football these days, they absolutely should.
If large companies don’t pay tax, then they should at least pay for the public service!
Seems fair imo. Put it on the prem clubs, 3.5mill a piece. Negligible effect on their finances really. Could even scale it on club turnover so the big 6 pay the majority of it. Or average attendance.
Surprised reading these comments that a few people are against this. Daniel Levy alt accounts invading the sub.
So once football starts having to pay I assume the police will start asking other sports too for “equality” reasons
I dont know, they are policing the people who pay for the policing, if you get me. Its an event where british public go to and they pay their taxes and this will only just get passed on to the ticket buyers. i already really dont go to many events as the prices are silly.
Yeah they fucking should. If they can afford to pay players those ludicrous amounts the should easily be able to afford helping out cleaning up after their fricking fans
Im genuinely surprised sporting and major event’s don’t already pay for stuff like this.
Road closures.
Extra binmen.
Etc…
Absolutely they should.
I’m personally not interested in football, yet a huge but my council tax pays for this policing, but not traffic enforcement or burglary investigations.
Much like Scotland the police service see football as an opportunity to inflate their budget.