The end of protest? Service values and public trust are more important than assessing ‘more than minor hinderance’

16th June 2023Owen West, Senior Lecturer in Policing, Edge Hill University

The UK’s new Public Order Act completed its late night passage through the House of Lords this week, with the Government using rare secondary legislation to secure its success; Senior Policing Lecturer Owen West, a former chief superintendent and public order policing specialist, believes it is not only members of the upper house who regret the new law – police officers and commanders will face an impossible task in trying to interpret and implement the Act.

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