{"id":587913,"date":"2025-11-23T02:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587913\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:36:59","slug":"dna-spray-for-sheffield-wednesday-v-sheffield-united-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587913\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA spray for Sheffield Wednesday v Sheffield United match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">DNA tagging spray will be used by South Yorkshire Police for the first time at Sunday&#8217;s Sheffield football derby to identify trouble-causing fans.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spray contains a synthetic DNA-like solution which is invisible on an individual&#8217;s clothing and skin, but is detectable using ultraviolet light making it easier to trace those involved in disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was first used at a football match by Cheshire Police in March 2025, and since then other forces including West Yorkshire Police have made used of the spray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Supt Charlotte Bloxham, who is overseeing the Sheffield Wednesday v Sheffield United game at Hillsborough, said the match should be a &#8220;celebration of sport, not a platform for criminal behaviour&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DNA tagging spray will be used by South Yorkshire Police for the first time at Sunday&#8217;s Sheffield football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-587913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115596692346886984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}