Kettling's very much in the news at the moment. But that's just one public order tactic. People will continue to get kettled as long as they don't know about the policing of public order, which is the subject of this blog. Here are two documents to get you started thinking about public order policing, one from the Association of Chief Police Officers and one from the US Army. The US Army manual goes through the panoply of police (and military) responses to disturbances, and reading it will give you a better idea of how the police gain and maintain control of a disturbance.
US Army Field Manual on Civil Disturbance Operations (large pdf!)
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