Only three police officers are being sent from the United Kingdom to the United States to help support England fans at the World Cup — a 92 per cent cut on the 40 they stationed in Germany for the European Championships in 2024.Chief constable Mark Roberts, the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s (NPCC) lead for football, has said UK police are having to fund the three officers they are sending themselves, which is a marked change from previous tournaments where host nations ordinarily foot the bill.The U.S. is one of the three tournament co-hosts, alongside Canada and Mexico.“The way the operation has been organised is there is a central element with the IPCC (International Police Cooperation Centre), but then each state and local policing agency is sorting out their own local operations, so it is a complicated one,” Roberts said at a media briefing on Thursday.“We need to manage expectations. If you went to Germany, at every station and every entrance point, you would have had an English cop there working alongside the German federal and state police.“I took the decision that we thought it was that important to have a footprint on the ground. It is financially difficult and UKFPU (United Kingdom Football Policing Unit) has just had a 10 per cent cut to its funding this year, in year, from the Home Office, so it is a challenge.”