Editing Hillsborough disaster (section)

=== South Yorkshire Police command changes ===
[[South Yorkshire Police]] (SYP) presence at the previous year's FA Cup semi-final (also between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest and also at Hillsborough Stadium) had been overseen by Chief Superintendent Brian L. Mole.<ref name="Brian Mole">{{cite web |url=http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/docs/SYP000067080001.pdf|title=Witness statement of Chief Superintendent Brian Mole, South Yorkshire Police|website=hillsborough.independent.gov.uk|date=19 May 1989|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706143904/http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/docs/SYP000067080001.pdf|archive-date=6 July 2016}}</ref> Mole had supervised numerous police deployments at the stadium in the past. In October 1988 a probationary PC in Mole's F division, South Yorkshire was handcuffed, photographed, and stripped by fellow officers in a fake robbery, as a [[hazing]] prank. Four officers resigned and seven were disciplined over the incident. Chief Superintendent Mole himself was to be transferred to the Barnsley division for "career development reasons". The transfer was to be done with immediate effect on 27 March 1989.<ref name="transfer">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/07/most-experienced-police-commander-prank-transfer-hillsborough-disaster|title=Hillsborough inquest hears of police commander's transfer before match|last=Conn|first=David|date=7 July 2014|work=The Guardian|issn=0261-3077|access-date=6 August 2016}}</ref>

Meanwhile, Hillsborough was accepted as the FA Cup semi-final venue on 20 March 1989 by the Football Association.<ref name="Brian Mole" /> The first planning meeting for the semi-final took place on 22 March and was attended by newly promoted Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, not by Mole. No known minutes exist of this meeting.<ref name="transfer" /> Although Mole could have been assigned the semi-final match's planning despite his transfer, that was not done. This left planning for the semi-final match to Duckenfield, who had never commanded a sell-out football match before, and who had "very little, if any" training or personal experience in how to do so.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/30/hillsborough-police-officer-david-duckenfield-training-1989-fa-cup-barrister|title=Hillsborough police officer in command 'had little training' for 1989 FA Cup|last=Conn|first=David|date=30 June 2014|work=The Guardian|issn=0261-3077|access-date=6 August 2016}}</ref>