Abdus Sattar, an official of the Bangladesh industrial police, said that workers had tried to block a major road leading north from Dhaka but had retreated after police units wielding batons moved to restore order.
Thousands of Liverpool fans failed to get into the ground, despite having tickets, and riot police used tear gas and batons outside the Olympic Stadium to quell disturbances as supporters were turned away.
Police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have used batons to disperse protesters during a six-hour strike against a gas exploration deal with the US energy giant ConocoPhillips.
But in Rawalpindi Pakistani security forces fired tear gas and wielded batons to disperse opposition supporters for defying a ban on public gatherings, police sources told CNN.
While she said that while police officers had in some cases expressed "surprise" that her office had the power to "relieve them of batons, uniforms or vehicles for evidence, " she said she had not experienced significant resistance in her investigations.