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Securing Populations: Protests, Residents and Spectators

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Securing Mega-Events

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This chapter examines many of the familiar tensions we have come to regard as underlying properties of the Brisbane 2014 Group of Twenty (G20), but with shifting the focus away from the relationship between the G20 Group and G20 Taskforce to the subject of public order policing. The first section of the chapter provides a brief overview of the relationships that shaped how the Queensland Police Service (QPS) approached their role, most notably in terms of engagement with the Toronto Police Service (TPS) on public order policing. The second section considers how the relationship between these actors appears to have underpinned shifts in the practices adopted at Brisbane 2014. The third section analyses these different practices, including their origins and underlying rationalities. We conclude by considering what the QPS’s approach means for public order policing at mega-events.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The exact number of those arrested varies across a number of official agencies. The RCMP cites a total of 1115 people, the TPS-run Prisoner Processing Centre reports a total of 1112 and the OIPRD indicates that at least 1140 people were arrested. Given the lack of records kept on the arrests, precise numbers are not available.

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    While the outcomes of this action remain inconclusive at the time of writing, a previous police appeal to have it dismissed was rejected in Canada’s Supreme Court (Perkel 2016).

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    Chad Whelan

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Whelan, C., Molnar, A. (2018). Securing Populations: Protests, Residents and Spectators. In: Securing Mega-Events. Crime Prevention and Security Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59668-0_6

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