Police and Football Association discuss stamping out violence in stadiums

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Police Commissioner Danny Levy and Football Association Chairman Shino Zoarets held a special working meeting to boost enforcement in the stands and prevent exceptional incidents in stadiums. Senior police officers attended, as did Maccabi Haifa CEO Itzik Obadia. The police and the Association examined ways to deal with violence in stadiums, and agreed to continue working together.

Chief Superintendent Danny Levy said: "We will not allow a handful of people to cause harm." Chairman Shino Zoarets added: "A unification of forces is needed." Against the background of the growing use of pyrotechnics and violent incidents in the stands, the meeting discussed combining advanced technological means, uncompromising enforcement and removing criminal elements from stadiums.

The police and the Football Association jointly presented a joint move to end violence in stadiums, led by boosting enforcement in the stands. In this way, the fight against violence in football stadiums moved to a stage of joint work between the bodies.