On the road: Parker and co will represent England in Ukraine and Poland

He stressed there was no specific intelligence about England being targeted or information that fans will travel from this country with the aim of making trouble.

But, in a country where it is alleged that former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been tortured recently, there are anxieties about the differences between police tactics.

'They have more of an "on-off" policy,' added Holt. 'They might not do much and stand back but then they see something that might be disorder and suddenly go steaming in. Our approach might be to engage in a dialogue and give warnings and only after that would we take enforcement action.'

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