{"id":50176,"date":"2025-08-06T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50176\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:02:08","slug":"uk-police-force-to-use-dna-tagging-spray-to-curb-disorderly-soccer-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50176\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police force to use &#8216;DNA tagging spray&#8217; to curb disorderly soccer fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CREWE, England \u2014 A police force in northwest England will use a \u201cDNA tagging spray\u201d to try to curb disorderly behaviour from soccer fans this season.<\/p>\n<p>Cheshire police said Wednesday they will equip officers with the spray at all fourth-tier matches in the region, including for Crewe Alexandra\u2019s game against Accrington Stanley on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The spray marks equipment, clothing and skin with an invisible, uniquely coded synthetic DNA solution that can be used for forensic evidence. It \u201cclings to skin and clothing for months,\u201d police said. The spray shows up under ultraviolet light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that the vast majority of football fans are law-abiding, but unfortunately, on occasions there are some who are intent on causing disorder, which is why a strong policing operation is essential,&#8221; said chief constable Mark Roberts, who is the lead for soccer policing in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m confident that this new tool will make a real difference,&#8221; he added, &#8220;by helping to identify and deter the criminals who attend football matches here in Cheshire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CREWE, England \u2014 A police force in northwest England will use a \u201cDNA tagging spray\u201d to try to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-50176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}