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Germany: UK police get power of arrest at World Cup

01 March 2006

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Uniformed British and Welsh police officers will have arrest powers and be able to use "reasonable force" during the World Cup in Germany this summer. Forty four UK officers, including some from the British Transport police, will be given the same powers as German federal officers a Home Office news release says; the visiting British police have been granted special powers to operate in a foreign country. The spokesman added that the German federal police force had requested that the British officers be given the "appropriate powers". Although Germany is being turned into a fortress for the competition, British police will be armed with batons and handcuffs but will not carry tasers or other controversial equipment. They will mainly be attached to German federal officers policing borders, railway stations, airports and trains, but some will be deployed in city centres. The operation involves 78 police officers in all, 44 of whom will be based in Germany and eight who will be located in transit countries; there are also 23 intelligence officers. Three officers will be work with the Crown Prosecution Service, which will have four representatives present in order to "build packages of evidence that can be used in British courts."

Home Office "World Cup 2006 Policing and Security Arrangements Unveiled”, 10.3.06.

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