'Deploy police liaison teams at football matches'

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'Deploy police liaison teams at football matches'

Expert says the tactic is curiously absent from one of the largest instances of public order policing.

Dr Clifford Stott who helped develop the concept of police liaison teams

Date - 1st February 2016
By - Ian Weinfass at the Society of Evidence Based Policing Conference, Leeds

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Police liaison teams can and should be deployed more at football matches, one of the country's leading public order experts believes. PLTs have become an increasingly widely used form of managing public order events since their inception in...

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