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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
One of the Metropolitan Police's priorities from the outset was maintaining public order, particularly the Chartist demonstrations in 1839, 1842 and 1848, a role in which they were supplemented by Special Constables, first introduced by the Special Constables Act 1831, empowering Magistrates to appoint ordinary citizens as temporary police ...
Clause (c) allows for a defence on the grounds of reasonable behaviour. This interpretation will depend upon case law. In Dehal v Crown Prosecution Service, Mr Justice Moses ruled that in cases involving freedom of expression, prosecution is unlawful unless it is necessary to prevent public disorder: "a criminal prosecution was unlawful as a result of section 3 of the Human Rights Act and ...
The Undercover Policing Inquiry is an independent statutory inquiry into undercover policing in England and Wales. It was announced by Theresa May , the then Home Secretary , on 6 March 2014, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and its terms of reference were published on 16 July 2015.
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 ...