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| Wimbledon Street Ticket Resellers Targeted |
 Street sellers hoping to make a quick buck at the Wimbledon tennis
championships are being warned they have little chance of cashing in
because of special measures being deployed against them. Wandsworth Council, Merton Council and the Metropolitan Police have all
teamed up to introduce a special two week dispersal zone to keep the
touts at bay.
The zone will apply to the area around the All England Club and include
the precincts around Southfields, Wimbledon Park and Wimbledon stations.
Anyone suspected of ticket touting can be ordered by a uniformed policed officer to leave the zone and not return for 24 hours. Anyone who returns before that deadline will be arrested. Anyone actually caught selling tickets faces immediate arrest. The police have already written to known touts warning them to steer clear of the area until the championships finish. Touting can be a serious problem at major sporting events. As well as forcing fans to pay way over the odds for a ticket, some touts sell forged or stolen tickets. Anyone who is believed to have purchased a ticket from a tout or from any other unauthorised outlet is likely to be refused entry to the All England Club. This year will be the third time that a dispersal zone has been in force at the Wimbledon tennis championships. In 2008 Wandsworth and Merton became the first local authorities in the country to operate a joint cross-border zone. It led to a big fall in the number of touting problems in the area, with reports of forged or stolen tickets down 60 per cent. The council's community safety spokesman Cllr James Cousins said: "It is important that we do all we can to prevent fans being ripped off. "Some of the touts use pretty aggressive and underhand tactics to sell tickets at vastly inflated prices. In some cases the tickets are fake, and there have been occasions when touts have taken money from unsuspecting tourists and then simply disappeared. "We believe that the introduction of a dispersal zone, supported by the two councils and the police, will again prove effective in disrupting the unlawful activities of the touts."
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