article_snippet: Police officer David Duckenfield today admitted that Police officer David Duckenfield was not qualified to oversee the FA Cup semi-final in April 1989 which ended in tragedy .
article_snippet: Former chief superintendent David Duckenfield, the match commander, had little experience of policing football matches and had never been in charge during a game before.
article_snippet: Mr Duckenfield, now 70, was a chief superintendent who was promoted to be head of the local police division two weeks before the game.
article_snippet: Mr Duckenfield said Mr Duckenfield had no recent previous experience of policing at Hillsborough before the match and Mr Duckenfield knowledge of the stadium was 'very general.'
article_snippet: Mr Duckenfield agreed that while Mr Duckenfield had experience of public order policing, that was 'totally different' to policing football matches.
article_snippet: Mr Duckenfield said that after first joining South Yorkshire Police as a cadet in 1960, Mr Duckenfield had been 'delighted' to be promoted to the post of chief superintendent of F Division of South Yorkshire Police - including Hillsborough - around March 1989.
article_snippet: Inexperienced: Mr Duckenfield had only recently been promoted at the time of the match .
highlights_snippet: David Duckenfield had been promoted two weeks before game in April 1989 .
  
highlights_snippet: David Duckenfield had little experience of policing big football matches, inquest hears .
  