Post G20: The Challenge of Change, Implementing Evidence-based Public Order Policing

摘要

In the wake of the 2011 ‘riots’, public order policing tactics in England and Wales havenonce again been brought into question. Yet, the riots came two years since police regulatorynauthorities in the UK called for fundamental reforms to the policing of publicnorder. Questions are raised about why the change called for appears to have been sonslow and what can be done to assist reform. This paper suggests that developing an evidence-nbased policing approach within the field of public order policing to inform policendecision-making would provide the answers. By doing so, the paper addresses some ofnthe possible barriers to implementing evidence-based policing in public order and callsnfor police academic partnership to overcome these to make ‘change’ an ongoing reality