DAVID Kennedy, the general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, has described the failure to set up an organised fan zone in Glasgow for supporters celebrating a Scottish title win as “bizarre” after years of unrest on the streets.officers will be unable to maintain public order if violence flares in the city centre on the day of a mass gathering or showpiece match in future.
“The biggest hassle was at Trongate. The flares are a real issue, the pyrotechnics are a massive problem. More needs to be done on that. “There were Rangers fans turning up with shopping trolleys stacked with drink. There was no curtailment of what people were drinking, it was just a free for all. You would have expected proper facilities which were being controlled. But there is a lot of learning from that.
“For me, this should come from the council. They should be putting fan zones on and they’re not. Maybe they think they don’t have the money to do that. But the reality is it is going to make money. “The reality is the police are strapped, there are not enough cops. We had more than 1,000 police officers on duty and the vast majority of them were out working on their rest days.
“The workload of the police is through the roof. The numbers we are at at the moment is way short of what we need to police and look after the community effectively. That is one of the big issues.”in a different way. We always focus on the violence. It is about time we flipped that and actually looked at the people who just want to celebrate. That might take some of the violence away from it, or at least the focus on those who are that way inclined.
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