The Strong Arm of the Law: Armed and Public Order Policing

ISBN-13: 9780198273592 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 368 str.

P. A. J. Waddington

Opis

Have the British abandoned their commitment to "policing by consent?" The sight of armed and riot police on the streets has led to this question being asked repeatedly over the past decade. However, the secrecy that has surrounded the policy governing armed and public order policing has previously made this topic one of speculation rather than an informed debate. During his three years' extensive research into the Metropolitan Police, P.A.J. Waddington was given unprecedented access to the hitherto secret world of armed and riot policing. Here he provides a detailed description of police policy, tactics, and weaponry, examining such issues as the selection and training of armed officers, the lethality of police firearms tactics, the growth of paramilitarism, methods of dispersing rioting crowds, and the causes of riots.

Recenzje

`he is ... able to relate the broad social, legal and political issues to the practical, scientific and indeed experimental problems faced by those in the front line ... This has enabled him clearly to identify, and to suggest ways of remedying, a central problem that has eluded other commentators' Reviewing Sociology

Spis treści

Part I: Police Force: Introduction; The eclipse of 'Dixon of Dock Green'; Part II: 'Armed Police': The people for the job?; 'Deadly force'; Part III: Riot Police: Paramilitary policing; The use of force in public order policing; The politics of explanation and justification; Part IV: Conclusions: The politics of force; Appendix I: Police firearms - policy, training, and weaponry; Appendix II: Public order policing - equipment, tactics, and training