Adapting to protest
HMIC Report - Adapting to Protest HMIC's report highlights the need for the police to plan and deliver police operations that safeguard the rights of individuals during protests.
The report makes a number of immediate recommendations, including that police:
- Facilitate peaceful protest
- Improve dialogue with protest groups where possible
- Improve communication with the public
- Moderate impact of containment when used
- Improve training to equip officers to deal with the full spectrum of protest activity
- Wear clear identification at all times
and that:
- National guidance on the policing of protest needs overhauling by ACPO.
Date: Tue Jul 07 09:09:57 BST 2009
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