A flare is fired during last week's A-League final between Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory. Do we look at options around 'Well, if you're banned from soccer, you're banned from AFL? Acting Assistant Commissioner Rick Nugent said. You don't want to get to that, but if it's going to make the environment much safer for families and decent ordinary people who go along and enjoy the sport, we've got to look at it. Police, Etihad Stadium and AAMI Park management, security groups, Football Federation Australia executives and Melbourne Heart and Melbourne Victory club representatives met in Melbourne to discuss crowd concerns. Mr Nugent said he was determined to turn around bad fan behaviour and police would consider extending banning notices - typically used to prohibit revellers from pubs and clubs - to sport, to restrict fans with a history of trouble in one code from attending another. "What I'm told, anecdotally, is there are people that go to soccer who cause issues - whether it's flares, jumping on seats and breaking seats - that do go to AFL games and behave appropriately," he said. Mr Nugent said it took police up to 10 times as many officers to control soccer games that games in other codes. Time was up for fans ruining games for families, he said. Police are tight-lipped about exactly how many more officers and how much more it costs to monitor soccer matches. Event organisers, not taxpayers, foot the extra bill. Damage created by fans at Etihad Stadium during the Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Heart derby on February 2. But Police Association secretary Greg Davies said that the "user pays" system of match organisers paying for extra police meant added costs were passed on to fans. "The decent people that go to soccer games have to pay the price because of the yobbos that want to throw flares and smash chairs," he said. Mr Nugent said there had been a change in soccer crowd behaviour in recent months "inconsistent with the behaviour of supporters in other sporting codes." "We can have 100,000 people at the MCG for Collingwood and Carlton, but yet you just don't see the number of incidents per supporter head that you do, unfortunately, in recent times in the soccer," he said. He vowed to work with the FFA, stadiums and clubs over the off-season to develop a new "fairly solid action plan" to combat bad crowd behaviour. "We need to really look at having these elements wiped out," he said. The head of the A-League, Damien de Bohun, confirmed the FFA, clubs and police met yesterday "to continue the development and review of processes to target issues of anti-social behaviour." "FFA and A-League clubs are committed to building on the excellent work that has already been undertaken, and to continue developing and reviewing processes for the upcoming season," he said. There are calls to ban soccer louts from other sporting events after a number of incidences at A-League games in recent months. The removal of the minority element of poorly behaved individuals from attending A-League matches is a priority. After praising crowd behaviour last season, police have been shocked by incidents this year including a supporter being king-hit at a match at AAMI Park, a police officer being struck to the head and knocked to the ground by unruly fans, the firing of flares, and damage to stadium seats. A 23-year-old Essendon man was recently charged with assaulting police in relation to an incident at AAMI Park on February 16. Four people caught with flares during Melbourne Victory's win against Perth Glory at Etihad Stadium on Friday have been given $423 on-the-spot fines. And a 16-year-old boy was charged with conduct endangering persons and possession of a flare at the Melbourne derby at Etihad Stadium on February 2.