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PLANS are still being made ahead of the visit to Bournemouth of Israeli side Hapoel Be’er Sheva in the Europa League in January.
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Dorset Police are still very much in the planning stages for the game, which is the Cherries’ final match of the league phase on January 28.
Before that, they host Sturm Graz on Thursday, AC Milan next week and Viktoria Plzeň in December.
“We have started planning already, and we're running planning in parallel essentially for these first two matches, the third match, the fourth match, and we assess each match on the information intelligence that we've received,” assistant chief constable Lindsay Dudfield told the Daily Echo.
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“We're objective in terms of understanding that information and building a policing response adequately to deal with that.”
ACC Dudfield said the policing operation is steered by intelligence gathered and the force is still in the process of assessing this fixture.
“We really do want all of these events to be safe events for everyone to participate in, and we will objectively review the information intelligence in order that our policing operation matches the requirements,” she said.
“I should say we're still a few months away from that fixture, so obviously gathering the information intelligence will continue over the coming months and we'll constantly review that.
“But our focus at the moment is the first two matches, which are this week and next week.”