Football arrests down

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The National Criminal Intelligence Service's Football Intelligence Unit has produced figures for the 1993/4 football season showing that the overall number of arrests has fallen by 8%, from 4,588 to 4,227. The most dramatic drop however occurred in Division Two (down 27%) and Division Three (down 11%) where there was "less policing and more stewarding" provided by the club's themselves. Of the total of 4 227 arrests only 13 were for "racial or indecent chanting".

National Criminal Intelligence Service press release 4.8.94.

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