Preventative Role of Policing in Preventing Football Spectator's from Displaying Destructive Behavior

Over the years, football spectators have converted sport stadiums into battlefields to fight with each other. They take some destructive collective actions which not only destroy public assets, but also challenges police and security forces dispensation. The present research aims at finding suitable approaches to get rid of these actions through reviewing IRI Police managers’ views. In the research, a sample including 126 police managers were randomly selected through using segmental survey. Then their views were measured through using a self-made questionnaire with enough reliability (α=0.87), and the achieved data have analyzed through using binominal test. It is through using the data resulted from invisible control,police visible physical presence, contentment factors, and psychological operations destructive actions of football spectators can be reduced. Among the five above–mentioned factors, both psychological operations and invisible control have had more impact on preventing the spectators from getting into destructive actions. The data resulted from the research indicates that all the five common collective behavior management approaches (psychological operation, contentment approaches, factors and police visible presence) can be used to prevent spectators from getting into collective riotous actions.