The Home Office has released arrest and banning order statistics for the 2010-11 season.
The figures show that arrests involving English and Welsh domestic and international teams fell by 302 to 3,089, a 9% decrease compared to the 2009-10 season. This equates to one arrest per 12,249 spectators.
The police made no arrests at 71% of all matches, whilst 86% of fixtures involved two or less arrests. Around half the arrests took place outside stadia.
Although public disorder remains the highest single reason for arrest the figures reveal a fall of 150 to 1076 compared to the previous season and there was an even bigger fall for violent disorder which has reduced from 578 to 330 arrests. However, there were increased numbers of arrests relating to alcohol offences, racist/indecent chanting, ticket touting, possessing offensive weapons and breach of banning orders.
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