‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP26

Initially introduced and hailed as means of offering more democratic and facilitative policing, but increasingly subject to question by protestors, Police Liaison Teams (PLTs) are one of the primary tactical options used by Public Order Police in the UK. This paper will analyse the deployment of PLT...

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Autores principales: Gorringe, Hugo 1975- (Autor) ; Rosie, Michael 1968- (Autor) ; Reicher, Stephen (Autor) ; Portice, Jennie (Autor) ; Tekin, Selin (Autor) ; Hamilton, Michael 1975- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2024
En: Policing and society
Año: 2024, Volumen: 34, Número: 10, Páginas: 1031-1043
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Palabras clave:
COP26
liaison
Public order
Protest
Policing
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Sumario:Initially introduced and hailed as means of offering more democratic and facilitative policing, but increasingly subject to question by protestors, Police Liaison Teams (PLTs) are one of the primary tactical options used by Public Order Police in the UK. This paper will analyse the deployment of PLTs over the 14 days of the global COP26 summit in Glasgow in 2021. The police plan for the event emphasised Human Rights, dialogue and facilitation, but some protest groups accused PLTs of ‘intelligence-gathering’ and urged activists not to speak to them. This paper draws on participant observation and interviews with both police and protestors to analyse the deployment of PLTs at the summit and consider why some groups chose not to engage with the liaison officers. Responding to calls for more evidence-based analyses of PLT deployment, we highlight the difficulties of police-protestor liaison at a Global Summit and outline why protest groups might choose not to engage.
ISSN:1477-2728
DOI:10.1080/10439463.2024.2359487