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Why so many police on Sat
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deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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I was wondering that, larger than usual away attendance!? Monkey northerners!?
Frank Inkerman
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They do have some "training matches" - perhaps this was one of those.
Can't say that I noticed more than usual - was it inside or outside the ground?
Can't say that I noticed more than usual - was it inside or outside the ground?
Was not Was
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- Jul 31, 2003
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From Preston Park station to the ground:
- didn't let us walk through the wood. I seem to recall we weren't supposed to when we first moved to Withdean, but this hasn't been enforced for 10 years ...
- then loads of them along the main road, on foot and in vans.
All officers were perfectly polite, but lots of people were asking why they were there (which seems a reasonable question; maybe there's a risk to our safety we should be aware of) and being told "don't know" as an answer to every question! It seemed odd.
Thunder Bolt
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My thoughts are that they were needed for the Marathon and so took the whole weekend as overtime. What better way to deploy extra police than at a football match?
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Both inside and outside. Didn't hear of any trouble before or after so maybe it was just a training day. I guess there are still different category of games and Sheff W might just be in the higher risk group than most of the teams we have played this season? Not sure why though other than they filled the away end.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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With important games for Saints and Hudders coming up, training purposes would make sense.
Dick Knights Mumm
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I think they heard of the trouble outside the ground at Hillsborough and were not taking any chances ............................
Pretty pink fairy
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yes , of course they were
Dick Knights Mumm
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yes , of course they were
whooosh ..........................
Pretty pink fairy
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plop !
salty seagull
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I think it was because at the last game I told the woman in the burger van not to be so bloody rude.Then word got around that I was ready to raise a right old rumpus this week and I really can be an absolute wretch when I`m rattled.
southwickseagull
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And what was with the half a dozen blokes in shirts and ties who appeared in front of D block 10 minutes before half time?
Pretty pink fairy
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Have you any idea how much police budgets are being cut by??And it's almost unheard of for police to be paid overtime for Albion matches: for starters the most games require minimal policing anyway so they're simply not needed, and secondly, the dates of the games are known weeks if not months in advance, so officers are either shuffled around from normal duties, or have their rest days cancelled and re-rostered, thereby incurring no overtime.
Might be a great big overtime gravy train in the Met, but Sussex are tight as anything when it comes to paying out any more than they absolutely have to.
salty seagull
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I`ve seen him somewhere before.Hasn`t he got a statue outside Craven Cottage?
Brighton Breezy
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And it's almost unheard of for police to be paid overtime for Albion matches: for starters the most games require minimal policing anyway so they're simply not needed, and secondly, the dates of the games are known weeks if not months in advance, so officers are either shuffled around from normal duties, or have their rest days cancelled and re-rostered, thereby incurring no overtime.
Might be a great big overtime gravy train in the Met, but Sussex are tight as anything when it comes to paying out any more than they absolutely have to.
I know someone from Sussex Police who gets over time to police certain high profile Brighton or Crawley matchs because he is riot trained, or something like that.