Summary
This report examines the policing of several recent public order events in Canada and develops some analytical tools designed to assist further examination. It finds that public order policing is an innovative hybrid police form in which control and service are practised simultaneously in a morphing of intelligence-led and community policing orientations. Public order policing is not simply becoming more "soft hat" or "hard hat": it is both. The report also finds that the politics of law, of consent and order, produces a grid of mobilization that deviates more or less from the hybrid form, these being control, service, disordered, and crisis. Disordered and crisis policing occur where the policing function itself contributes to a disintegration of consent. This kind of policing has occurred at Oka and APEC, the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, the OAS meeting at Windsor, and, although it was not analyzed, Ipperwash.
Contents
1. Public order and modern policing. -- 2. Current themes in public order policing. -- 2.1. Democratization -- 2.2. Ambiguity and institutionalization -- 2.3. Violence -- 2.4. Knowledge and information -- 2.5. Political culture -- 2.6. The politics of law and order -- 3. Recent protest experience in Canada. -- 3.1. Oka -- 3.2. Burnt Church -- 3.3. Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Conference -- 3.4. OAS Windsor -- 3.5. Summit of the Americas, Quebec City -- 3.6. G-8 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta -- 4. Police mobilization at public order events. -- 4.1. Emergent police knowledge -- 4.2. Types of public order policing -- 4.3. Hybrid mobilization --
5. Dimensions for crafting public order policing -- 5.1. Dimensions of public order policing -- 5.2. -- Crafting public order policing -- 5.2.1. Ground (law) -- 5.2.2. Communications -- 5.2.3. Mode of application (coercion) -- 5.2.4. Summary -- 5.3. Crafting public order policing -- 5.3.1. working ground -- 5.3.2. Working with light and time (communications) -- 5.3.3. Working with heat (coercive force) -- 6. Best practices in public order policing -- 6.1. Overall objectives -- 6.1.1. Recognizing politics -- 6.1.2. Facilitating communications -- 6.1.3. Defusing violence -- 6.2. Specific measures -- 6.2.1. Training and learning -- 6.2.2. Organization and culture -- 6.2.3. Decision making and coordination -- 6.2.4. Responsibilities and accountabilities -- 6.3. Conclusion.