Recipients of Football Banning Orders surrender passports

Date published: 30/05/2006

Over two hundred people with Football Banning Orders, inclduing threww from Rochdale, were required to surrender their passports to local police stations on Tuesday 30 May.

A total of 265 people have been sent letters from the Football Banning Order Authority, in conjunction with the National Criminal Intelligence Service NCIS, instructing them to attend a specific police station in the GMP area.

Those who have passports must give them up for the duration of the World Cup. People who do not have passports will be required to sign a document.

The 263 people who have received letters must report to a specified police station between 8am and 10pm today, and then between 12 noon and 5pm on 10 June, between 3pm and 8pm on 15 June and 5pm and 8pm on 20 June 2006.

The details of those people who have been sent a letter by the FBOA and fail to go to the specified police station will be recorded. Their details will be passed to officers at Manchester Airport, as well as other ports and police forces across the country.

Anyone subject to a Football Banning Order who is caught trying to travel to Germany from the UK will be arrested immediately.

Breaching a banning order is a criminal offence that, on conviction, carries a penalty of up to six months imprisonment and / or a £5,000 fine.

In total there are 287 people with banning orders attached to football clubs within the GMP force area.