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Kyoto Prefectural Riot Police Unit officers on duty during the Gion Matsuri 2008 festival. Crowd control is a public security practice in which large crowds are managed in order to prevent the outbreak of crowd crushes, affray, fights involving drunk and disorderly people or riots. Crowd crushes in particular can cause many hundreds of ...
An element of the Georgia State Patrol Mobile Field Force pictured in 2016. A mobile field force (MFF), within the context of United States law enforcement, is a large element of police officers specially organized to support anti-riot operations through the use of maneuver tactics aimed at dispersing crowds during their embryonic phase or extracting agitators and leaders from larger groups.
The 2004 edition of the U.S. Army's Field Manual 19-15: Civil Disturbances calls for troops operating in crowd control situations against violent mobs to form into multiple lines with the first line armed with batons, and the second line armed with rifle-fixed bayonets held in the "safe-port position". According to the manual, "in this elevated ...
(The Center Square) – Seattle is one step closer to ending a federal consent decree after the city council approved updated guidelines for the police department’s crowd management policies.
Council Bill 120916 would help the Seattle Police Department be in full compliance with a preliminary injunction regarding the department’s crowd control measures, the result of a 2012 court ...
Riot police are tasked with police operations that require advanced tactics and equipment to control crowds and maintain public order. These duties may differ between riot police organizations in different countries, but they are often similar in that they are tasked with maintaining order that is decided on by the presiding government.
The inquiry concluded in August 2009 that the Metropolitan Police should review its crowd control methods, including the tactic of kettling. [ 32 ] Denis O'Connor , Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , said in a report concerning the policing of the G20 protests that some police commanders did not understand the House of Lords ...
(The Center Square) – Seattle City Councilmember Cathy Moore has announced proposed reforms to limit the Seattle Police Department’s use of blast balls for crowd control. Blast balls are ...