Police Scotland have objected to an Irish Republican march taking place this weekend over public safety and disorder fears.

The procession is planned for Saturday afternoon in the south side of Glasgow and the group organising the event issued a notice to the city council in July.

The group, Independent Republican Bands Scotland (IRBS), said the march would begin at 1.30pm on Drakemire Drive in Castlemilk and continue for an hour and 45 minutes to Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire.

Police have outlined their objections to the anti-internment parade going ahead due to "a high risk to public safety, a high risk of public disorder and a high risk of disruption to the life of the community".

The force said this would only be able to be contained through "substantial deployment" of police resources including riot officers.

It was also highlighted that four other marches as well as two premier league football matches are taking place in Glasgow on the same day, which would mean officers from other areas of the country would need to be brought in to assist.

In 2014, the IRBS held a parade in the same area which resulted in a number of arrests and the event being dispersed due to "rioting and mobbing".

Around 120 officers along with the dog unit and mounted branch had to be deployed to deal with the trouble, police said.

A report to the council's public processions committee said: "Police Scotland representatives outlined their observations on the proposed procession and indicated their objection to the procession taking place as submitted.

"Their concerns were that should this parade take place there would be a high risk to public safety, a high risk of public disorder and a high risk of disruption to the life of the community.

"These risks could only be contained through a substantial deployment of Police Scotland resources, including specialist public order trained officers.

"Due to other competing events that day, including four other processions (one of which numbers 3000 participants) and two premiership football matches in Glasgow, the resources required would have to be drawn from other local authority areas, inclusive of Dundee, Edinburgh and other areas in Scotland, thus depriving those communities of resources."

It added: "The demand for this level of resourcing is formed from the observations and the experience of previous events involving Independent Republican Bands Scotland in September 2014 following the same route as proposed, whereby serious public disorder occurred resulting in arrests for mobbing and rioting and other public order offences, and involved the operational use of over 120 police officers including specialist officers from the mounted branch, dog branch, public order and air support unit.

"The procession culminated in Police Scotland's exercise of powers under Section 12 of The Public Order Act 1986 causing the procession to be halted and dispersed."

The council suggested the organiser change the date and use a shorter, more direct route and earlier start time.

However, the organiser said he suspected the council was showing favour to other organisations in preference to his cause and that the date of the procession was non-negotiable.

They could not reach an agreement between with the council or police so the event was referred to the public processions committee to rule on.

It was recommended the committee impose a number of amendments to the planned march.

These include changing the date to Saturday, September 3, and assembling in Drakemire Drive at the earlier time of 10.45am to start at 11am. It was also recommended the procession make some other changes to its route.

The IRBS has held five processions in Greater Glasgow, with two in 2013, two in 2014 and one in 2016. All passed without significant trouble except the one in September 2014 in Castlemilk.

The council report said: "In September 2014, there was a sizeable counter-demonstration in the Castlemilk area by individuals who attended near to the route armed with weapons and caused difficulty with the containment strategy deployed.

"Additional resources were summoned resulting in over 120 police officers, including mounted branch, dog branch, public order units and air support.

"Several arrests were made and disturbances continued in both the Castlemilk and Rutherglen area throughout the day.

"It is to be noted that in this and other processions by the Independent Republican Bands Scotland, there were no significant issues with the organiser."

A meeting of the public processions committee in Glasgow will be held on Tuesday to rule on the march.