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Tue 03 Mar 2007Platini calls for police in sportNewly-elected Uefa president Michel Platini has called for the creation of an international police force to deal specifically with sports-related violence.Such a body could help to tackle hooliganism, corruption and betting scandals and aid attempts to ban known offenders from stadiums, Platini told a briefing at Uefa's headquarters in Nyon.