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The Public Order Act 2023 (c. 15), referred to during its passage through Parliament as the public order bill and the anti-protest bill, [1] is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which gave law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom greater powers to prevent protest tactics deemed "disruptive" such as those used by climate protestors.
The Territorial Support Group (TSG) is a Met Operations unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) which focuses on public order policing and other specialist areas. [1] In 2012 it consisted of 793 officers and 29 support staff. [2] The TSG is a uniformed unit of the MPS that replaced the similarly constituted Special Patrol Group in ...
Provide the police service with an ability to develop a national threat assessment and profile for domestic extremism. Support forces to reduce crime and disorder from domestic extremism. Support a proportionate police response to protest activity. Help forces manage concerns of communities and businesses in order to minimise conflict and disorder.
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The policing of lockdown places the entire population at the centre of a huge public order operation. The public they once protected from threats has itself become the threat.
Current police forces have their grounding in the Police Act 1996 (in England and Wales), a combination of Police (Scotland) Act 1967 and Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (in Scotland) and the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (in Northern Ireland), which prescribe a number of issues such as appointment of a chief constable ...
In 2021 the government published the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which would amend and strengthen the Public Order Act 1986 in certain ways, including widening the restrictions police can place on protests and demonstrations, impose conditions on one-person protests, and define what is meant by protests causing "serious disruption ...
The Metropolitan Police said that a further 12 were arrested in central London for public order offences. [ 5 ] [ 102 ] As a response to these events, right-wing activist and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson announced a counter-protest for 13 June to protect both the Churchill statue and the Cenotaph from further vandalism. [ 103 ]