Zero arrests or incidents of bother involving England and Wales supporters passed off on the World Cup.
Police have hailed the behaviour of those that travelled to Qatar – though it was a unique story at house with 531 ‘football-related incidents’.
Officers say 150 of these passed off on the night of England’s quarter-final defeat to France, with 115 football-related arrests made within the UK in the course of the match thus far.
There have been no arrests or incidents of bother involving England or Wales followers in Qatar
The top of UK Soccer Policing has praised those that travelled for his or her conduct, together with his officers now house after England’s departure.
Chief Constable Mark Roberts, NPCC Lead for Soccer Policing, stated: ‘The behaviour of England and Wales out in Qatar was completely exemplary.
‘All through the house nations involvement within the match there have been no arrests or incidents to report, which is a credit score to all those that travelled. In Russia 2018 there have been three arrests, however clearly having two groups on this match we performed double the group stage video games, together with a house nations derby, which underlines the nice nature of our followers.
Wales followers additionally behaved themselves throughout their brief keep on the World Cup in Qatar
‘I’d additionally wish to reward all of the UK officers who travelled out to Qatar for the work they’ve accomplished in serving to to maintain British nationals secure in the course of the previous 4 weeks.’
Chief Constable Roberts believes the dearth of freely-available alcohol had an affect however is hoping that the scenes shall be repeated for the rest of the marketing campaign within the UK. ‘The environment in any respect the house nations video games was passionate however pleasant, and it could be incredible to see this replicated at matches again house all through the remainder of the season,’ he stated.
‘Historically we do have few arrests of our followers at World Cups, however to have zero is not one thing now we have seen earlier than. It could be fallacious to thoroughly attribute this glorious behaviour to the restrictions on alcohol in Qatar, however I do suppose it has helped to some extent.’
The shortage of accessible alcohol in Qatar was cited as a motive for the very fact there have been no arrests
There have been three arrests in Russia on the World Cup there in 2018, and 225 domestically.
Chief Constable Roberts added: ‘It has additionally been encouraging to see a discount within the quantity arrests within the UK all through this World Cup thus far, however sadly now we have nonetheless seen quite a lot of unsavoury incidents involving folks watching soccer.
‘As we transfer into the final week of the match I’d encourage everybody who’s planning on watching the matches to behave responsibly.’
