Vancouver bars, restaurants ready for FIFA fans as police prepare for any hooligans - BERITAJA

More than 100 Vancouver bars and restaurants are extending their liquor work hours during the FIFA World Cup.

Granville Street is now closed to buses and vehicles done July 26 for the World Cup pedestrian zone.

B.C.’s Liquor and Cannabis Regulations Branch says 93 applications to permanently widen liquor work hours successful Vancouver were approved, on pinch 28 that could temporarily widen hours during the World Cup.

Vancouver constabulary said up to 50 other officers could beryllium assigned to the city’s intermezo territory connected lucifer days and connected Friday and Saturday nights.

“We’ve been doing preparations for months, we’ve been educating our members, we’ve been having further courses about shot hooliganism,” Sgt. Adam Donaldson pinch the Vancouver Police Department said.

“We don’t expect excessively much, but we are prepared for it. It’s the Granville intermezo district; there’s a batch of hooliganism regularly.”

Many bars and restaurants are putting up patios during the Granville Street postulation closure and the B.C. authorities said 44 impermanent extensions of a licensed area were granted for FIFA.