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SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE AUTHORITY V. SHEFFIELD UNITED FOOTBALL (1)

01 January 1991

SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE AUTHORITY V. SHEFFIELD UNITED FOOTBALL
CLUB LIMITED
refdoc July=1991

JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 008901
Local Gov Rev, 7 Jun 1986 150(23) pp359-363

Assessment of the judgement in a case in which the football club
disputed the police claim to payment for policing football
matches, and was subsequently sued for arrears by the police
authority. The claim of the police was upheld on the grounds that
it has no general duty to prevent a threatened breach of the
peace, as might occur at or near a football match, and was acting
on behalf of the football club in protecting the interests of
those people whom the club had itself invited to the ground. As
such the police force was entitled to payment for its services.

United Kingdom, crime prevention, football crowd

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