5th International Police Education Conference workshops: Policing public order – Principle of Communication
(Ended 3rd Oct 2023)
Online
3rd Oct 2023 to 3rd Oct 2023
The principle of communication in a public order environment, in the age of social media being used to exasperate and alleviate crisis.
3rd October 2023 09:50hrs till 12:00 BST
A blended 2 hour Seminar online and in person which will consider aspects of Public Order policing building on the London Policing College workshops run over the last 4 years. The Panel made up of policing specialists, police leaders, and academics will be chaired and facilitated by Roger Gomm QPM.
The panel TBC will consider;
- Serious public disorder and riot, or the threat of it, has been a feature of many countries around the world for centuries.
- In all countries the policing of such events ‘has come under considerable public scrutiny’, quite simply because responding to public disorder draws the police into the public arena and makes them the centre of public debate, particularly if they over-react or are unable to control events which lead to the destruction of property, looting and, in some cases, even death.
- The body responsible for preserving civil peace and maintaining law and order is, in most countries, the police.
- Preserving or restoring public tranquillity in any country (or “the Kings (Queen’s) Peace” as it is often known in the United Kingdom,) has been, and indeed remains, one of its most important and difficult functions.
- Whilst many people have suggested, and, indeed, continue to stress that the prevention and detection of crime is the police’s primary duty, history suggests that ‘the core mandate of policing’ is ‘order maintenance.’
- A number of writers have suggested that the Metropolitan Police was formed in 1829, not to deal with crime, as is generally claimed, but to deal with the London mob.