article_snippet: Former police chief was responding to questions from Paul Greaney QC, representing the Police Federation, during Former police chief sixth day of evidence at the new Hillsborough inquests in Warrington, Cheshire.
article_snippet: Former police chief claimed Former police chief was unaware of the geography of Sheffield Wednesday's ground, this being Former police chief first match in charge.
article_snippet: Former police chief said: 'Do you agree that never mind a competent match commander it might only take a child of average intelligence to realise what the consequences of your actions might be?'
article_snippet: Former police chief agreed with Mr Greaney that it was 'totally unacceptable' that a match commander 'did not have a grip on the geography of that ground sufficient to enable you to understand the consequences of your decision making'.
article_snippet: Former police chief also accepted that when giving evidence to Lord Justice Taylor it appeared that Former police chief was aware that the congested Leppings Lane turnstiles did lead to the central tunnel.
article_snippet: Former police chief said Former police chief had expected police officers on the perimeter track of the ground and those in the West Stand overlooking the Leppings Lane terrace pens to have kept an eye on monitoring the filling of police officers on the perimeter track of the ground and those in the West Stand overlooking the Leppings Lane.
article_snippet: But Former police chief accepted police officers on the perimeter track of the ground and those in the West Stand overlooking the Leppings Lane had no received formal instructions to do so.
article_snippet: Former police chief also accepted that an experienced match commander 'probably would not have made at least some or perhaps any of those mistakes'.
article_snippet: At the Taylor Inquiry weeks after a disaster unfolding Former police chief was asked about Former police chief reaction when Former police chief was told shortly before the hearing that Former police chief probably needed separate legal representation from South Yorkshire Police.
article_snippet: I was of the view that that I was being represented by Mr Woodward (then Queen's Counsel for South Yorkshire Police)
article_snippet: Former police chief replied: 'Sir, I was an employee of South Yorkshire Police.'