Police deployment

3 Police deployment

3.1 General

CIV figures show that total police deployment around professional football rose again this report-year, compared with last year. In fact this demonstrated an ongoing 10% upward trend.

For the season under review policing hours, including auxiliary police, totalled 338,746.

However, the important figure is for total deployment of regular police. The table below gives an overview of the trend in the last several years. Police deployment for the year under review stands at 337,140 hours. This refers to the deployment of regular police.

Hence, deployment levels are up on last season despite the fact the police succeeded in reducing deployment at some professional clubs. In contrast, other police regions show an increase and in some cases this is substantial.

At the same time it should be noted that the increase may be due to a larger number of international games. However, it is striking that this year the increase in overall hours is largely due to policing in the First Division. The table below gives an overview per type of game. The figures are dealt with later in this report.

Competition	Hours season 99-00	Total games 99-00	Average	Hours season 00-01	Total games 00-01	Average	Hours season 01-02	Total games 01-02	Average	Hours season 02-03	Total games 02-03	Average
Premier League	155890	307	508	153928	307	501	161257	311	519	164804	308	535
First Division	44334	309	143	38563	308	125	34828	310	112	63338	307	206
European cup	22348	25	894	23437	28	837	42698	46	928	38002	40	950
Cup	16358	79	207	20404	78	262	25264	73	346	32251	77	419
Nacompetitie	8301	24	346	5563	24	232	10076	25	403	7379	24	307
Interland	10747	9	1194	5148	7	735	4145	4	1036	9499	13	731
Practice/friendly	5835	23	254	5340	31	172	4567	24	190	6055	30	202
Preparation	15316			15344			15920			15812
Total	279129	776		267727	783		298755	793		337140	799

In regard to the total hours devoted to preparations that to date it should be noted that up to now the CIV has estimated these figures on a seasonal basis. The figures provided have shown to be clearly incomplete. Only 5386 hours have been entered for preparation by the football coordinators for this season. Most of them have simply omitted to enter the figures. Using a given formula the CIV has calculated the total hours spent in preparations this year at 15,812. This means just over 6 hours preparation time per game this season. In the view of the CIV this is unlikely to reflect reality, and the impression is the total will be higher in practice. The total per game would rise considerably if the time required for preliminary discussion, internal consultation and, e.g., planning for person-power deployment were included. In some regions this activity occupies police officers almost full time whereby this factor would be considerably higher in hours for total police deployment.

Appendix I (police deployment per region) includes an overview of police deployment per region.

3.2 Registration of increased/decreased policing levels per club

3.2.1 General

Causes of increased policing.

Causes for increases include:

	Promotion to the Premier League;
	When a club normally requests low policing and suddenly, for one or two games, policing has to be at a high level. This has a strong impact on overall policing levels, particularly for First Division clubs;
	Criminal investigations after the match can strongly increase the level of policing. Once again this particularly applies to clubs with on-average low levels of policing;
	Routine deployment of the riot squad at every game this season;
	One hour increase in time on duty for risk games and
	Additional policing where the opposing team, playing away from home, had a chance of the championship.

Causes of decreased policing.

Causes for decreases include:

	Demotion to the First Division and
	Reduction of time on duty at games from the routine 8 hours to 6 hours for certain types of policing.

3.3.2 Premier League

The chart below gives an overview of policing in the Premier League during the season under review, compared with figures reported for the previous four seasons.

The overview shows that of the three major Dutch clubs, only the Amsterdam police made a substantial cut in policing at Ajax games, even realising the highest reduction, 28.2%, in the premier. policing levels at the other two “big” clubs, PSV and Feyenoord rose by 12% and 15.3% respectively.

The substantial increase in policing levels at Excelsior, FC Zwolle and RBC was largely due to the promotion of these clubs. A further increase in policing levels at the Premier League was also noted at games involving SC Heerenveen (31.7%) and FC Groningen (56.6%).

The high increase at FC Groningen is largely due to a number of duty hours for Eindhoven police, in Eindhoven, during PSV championship celebrations following the FC Groningen v PSV game. These policing hours were allotted to the actual game, whereby there was nil policing by the Groningen force.

AZ was also one of the clubs that succeeded in reducing levels of policing. Deployment by Alkmaar police was also 18.1% down.

3.2.3 First Division.

The overview below shows policing levels for the First Division during the season under review, as compared with the average for the four preceding seasons.

Immediately noticeable in this division is the enormous increase for games involving ADO Den Haag. This is no less than 208.9% compared with the average for the preceding four years, putting policing levels for ADO Den Haag at second highest for any professional club in both divisions this season. Only Feyenoord ranked higher in terms of total policing hours.

Reasons behind the massive increase at ADO Den Haag include the routine deployment of the riot squad at all games this season.

At 6 more professional clubs the increase was between 40.4 % and 96.6%.

While policing levels were sharply down at FC Den Bosch, Sparta and Fortuna Sittard this – again – is attributable to their demotion. Furthermore, Cambuur Leeuwarden realised a strong, 33.8%, decrease in policing levels.

3.3 Deployments of types of police

3.3.1 General

The overview below provides a picture of total hours per “type of” police. This data is based on input from the football coordinators.

season	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2203
Type deployment	hours	hours	hours	hours
Arrest squads	19839	19060	20851	21939
Alg.politiedienst ADOPTION	3356	1201	1875	3514
Algemene Politie Dienst	75369	56287	53542	62227
Arrestantenafhandeling	3950	5060	5580	5619
Mounted police	10779	11139	12281	11816
BijzondereWetten	276	149	166	158
Diversen	3940	5995	6195	6985
Dog units	8503	9412	10189	9229
Riot squad in riot kit	90233	84946	99794	104056
ME in ME-Tenue ADOPTIE	3928	1697	697	1210
OG Groepen	3973	5101	6911	7164
Parketpolitie	1232	1792	2504	2784
Politiesurveillanten	3251	4633	6395	5206
Criminal Investigation Dept.	2853	1827	2429	2663
CID after match	0	0	0	4858
Travelling hours	0	0	0	11668
Supp. begeleiding ADOPTIE	7669	13428	15047	14642
Supporters begeleiding	10832	12229	16271	18745
Verbindingen	2280	2669	2980	3536
Transport police	9977	12756	15467	13998
Transport police ADOPTIE	282	249	476	306
Video Observation	1681	2792	3188	3719
Preparation hours	0	0	0	4618
Preparation hrs adoption	0