Searching Before Games

[pjg1876]

I have posted on the 'Home Attendances' thread about physical searching in the Bycars at yesterday's game v Coventry but I feel it needs a separate thread.

 

No physical searching (bags yes) has ever taken place in the Bycars as far as I can remember until yesterday. Is this a new policy by the club and if so, for what reason.

 

Did anybody feel safer yesterday in the Bycars because this policy has been introduced? Smurf goes on, quite rightly, about poor home attendances and how the budget is tight yet we now have our privacy invaded and some fans, including myself, feel degraded by these physical searches and at what cost to the club.

 

Could someone who knows or speaks to Smurf please ask him to explain why this new policy has been introduced?

 

I could fully understand it if the Hamil End was fully sold out and there was a chance of away fans coming into the home areas but sorry that ain't going to happen.

 

As you will have gathered, I don't like this new approach and although some fans will feel it is a sign of the world we live (I have already had one response to that effect) this doesn't happen in shopping centres, hospitals, railway stations etc where there are many people so why Vale Park. I know fans seem to have different and sometimes feeble excuses why they don't attend games anymore but this new policy will deter others and needs stopping.

[smithie]

Totally agree, it seems people have come to blindly accept this as standard practice at football matches.

 

I doubt the stewards are happy doing it but they're acting on orders.

 

My brother's a Joke fan and he listed bodysearching as one of his reasons not to renew his season ticket. He's over 60!!

[Andy Proctor]

What i hate about being searched is when they tell you to empty your pockets then you have to get your wallet out with 100 quid in for everybody to see.

[The Wonder of You]

thing is it was random searches as well. not all!

[melv]

What i hate about being searched is when they tell you to empty your pockets then you have to get your wallet out with 100 quid in for everybody to see.

 

You just take the wallet out of you pocket.No need to open it.If they ask you to open it do it discreetly.Ask them why you need to open your wallet? Or tell them to open their wallet for you to look inside or to do one.

 

No big issue,annoying maybe but no real big issue.

[eatonparker]

One of the lucky ones who did not get searched in Railway yesterday, but agree it should not be happening

[Conrad]

I had my bag searched but they didn't search me personaly. It really naffs me off, first time in 45 years attending that this has happened, I could understand it to a point if it was youths and chavs being searched but I'm fast approaching 60 years old. I got search at Swindon and I asked if the home fans were being searched or was it just victimisation against away fans, I never got an answer.

(First time in 45 years at a home game)

[Conrad]

Does anyone know if stewards are legally allowed to search people.

[For Us All]

Can't see what the problem is,it's a sign of the times and a security measure.If you've got nothing to hide,you've nothing to fear.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

No issue for me, searches have taken place regularly in the RS. I have nowt to hide so don't have a problem.

 

Sadly with flares, general security issues and things it's a necessity in modern times.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

Does anyone know if stewards are legally allowed to search people.

 

This is the only thing I could find... http://www.urban75.org/football/rights.html

 

Most sporting events and concerts I've attended over recent times in various countries carry out searches.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

A little more;

http://www.spiritofshankly.com/representation/legal-briefing-for-supporters

[Conrad]

A little more;

http://www.spiritofshankly.com/representation/legal-briefing-for-supporters

 

Thanks, it seems they are allowed.

[PVTony]

I had my bag searched but they didn't search me personaly. It really naffs me off, first time in 45 years attending that this has happened, I could understand it to a point if it was youths and chavs being searched but I'm fast approaching 60 years old. I got search at Swindon and I asked if the home fans were being searched or was it just victimisation against away fans, I never got an answer.

(First time in 45 years at a home game)

 

Vale should employ beautiful young ladies to do the job. Vale supporters would then be queing up to get searched. (At least the men would).

[beasty77]

Are they allowed to search under 16s does anyone know?