Policing large scale disorder
Auteur: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee
Nombre de pages: 47 pages
ISBN: 0215040163, 9780215040169
Edition: The Stationery Office
Date de publication: The Stationery Office
Description: The disorder that took place in various towns and cities across England in August 2011 was unprecedented in the modern era because of the number of different incidents taking place in different locations over the same period of time. The disorder began in Tottenham, in the London Borough of Haringey, on the evening of Saturday 6 August, following a protest about the death of Mark Duggan, who had been shot dead by a police officer on Thursday 4 August. Over the course of the evening of Saturday 6 August, and again during Sunday 7 August, disorder occurred in other areas of London. Further disturbances took place in London on Monday 8 August, when the disorder began to spread to other towns and cities, including Birmingham and Bristol. On Tuesday 9 August, the disturbances continued, spreading to cities including Reading, Wolverhampton and Manchester. During the disturbances, businesses, homes and vehicles were set alight, shops were looted, the emergency services and television crews were attacked and five members of the public were killed: Trevor Ellis was shot in Croydon on Monday 8 August, and Richard Mannington Bowes was attacked in Ealing on the same evening and subsequently died of his injuries; Haroon Jahan, Shahzad Ali and Abdul Musavir were run over in Birmingham on the evening of Tuesday 9 August. It is important to analyse and understand why riots did not happen in some cities. Indeed, this is every bit as important as understanding why riots and looting did happen in other locations. For example, in Cardiff, which is a capital city but shares many characteristics with major English cities, there were only isolated attempts to mimic the riots in England. These variations need to be probed to discover whether there were characteristics in common.