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Public Order
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The policing of public order represents special challenges for the police, operationally in terms of choice of tactics and strategies, and politically with regard to the social environment within which events take place. Such policing is highly visible, and has a potentially high impact. Failure to prevent violence through police inaction, or escalating violence through police intervention, are constant dilemmas faced by police as they respond to specific kinds of events and situations.
Public order policing as defined here does not include the more mundane types of public order offences (such as being drunk and disorderly) or the routine policing of public spaces (such as downtown areas and shopping malls). Rather, public order policing refers to the policing of protestors, campaigners and other large gatherings of ...
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