tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313715222009-11-07T22:35:40.601+01:00Police StudiesThe internationally oriented research programme "Managing dangerous situations" focuses on the the interaction between police and civilians in a variety of potentially dangerous conflict situations. It includes research on use-of -force issues, football hooliganism, crisis communication and hostage negotiation, riots, public order management and crowd management. It is headed by Prof. dr. Otto M.J. Adang of the Police Academy of the Netherlands and the University of Liverpool.Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-42003116084881641802008-12-23T01:01:00.001+01:002008-12-23T01:03:29.654+01:00Football Supporters and Public Order ManagementConference: Football Supporters and Public Order Management, 22 -23 January 2009<br />Aarhus, Danmark<br /><br />Introduction<br /><br />The management of public order in the context of football is a major social, political and financial problem on both a national and an international level. Over the last three years this issue has become a salient concern in Denmark. In 2007 the re-elected Danish Government mentioned safety and security at football events as one of its prioritised tasks in their forthcoming term. Over the last three decades many other nations in Europe have been developing their own legislative and policing approaches to the problems of managing football related public order. There have also been important developments in scientific understanding of public order policing and its relationship to the dynamics of football crowd events.<br /><br />The Danish Ministry of Culture and the University of Aarhus have sponsored this Conference in order to draw together key agencies, leading practitioners and scientific experts from Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the U.K. The intention is to draw upon available knowledge and expertise to generate recommendations for the effective management of football related public order both inside and outside football stadiums in Denmark.<br /><br />The conference is organised around three distinctive but interrelated themes.<br />•      Safety & Security<br />•      Policing football supporters<br />•      Legislation and fan involvement<br /><br />More information at: <a href="http://www.idraet.au.dk/footballsupporters">http://www.idraet.au.dk/footballsupporters</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-4200311608488164180?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-86962163487333928212008-12-16T23:08:00.000+01:002008-12-22T23:25:57.847+01:00Singing the same tune? International continuities and discontinuities in how police talk about using forceP. A. J. Waddington, Otto Adang, David Baker, Christopher Birkbeck, Thomas Feltes, Luis Gerardo Gabaldón, Eduardo Paes Machado and Philip Stenning<br /><br />Crime, Law and Social Change<br />Published online: 16 December 2008<br /><br />Abstract<br />This article focuses on a research project conducted in six jurisdictions: England, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Venezuela, and Brazil. These societies are very different ethnically, socially, politically, economically, historically and have wildly different levels of crime. Their policing arrangements also differ significantly: how they are organised; how their officers are equipped and trained; what routine operating procedures they employ; whether they are armed; and much else besides. Most relevant for this research, they represent policing systems with wildly different levels of police shootings, Police in the two Latin American countries represented here have a justified reputation for the frequency with which they shoot people, whereas at the other extreme the police in England do not routinely carry firearms and rarely shoot anyone. To probe whether these differences are reflected in the way that officers talk about the use of force, police officers in these different jurisdictions were invited to discuss in focus groups a scenario in which police are thwarted in their attempt to arrest two youths (one of whom is a known local criminal) by the youths driving off with the police in pursuit, and concludes with the youths crashing their car and escaping in apparent possession of a gun, It might be expected that focus groups would prove starkly different, and indeed they were, but not in the way that might be expected. There was little difference in affirmation of normative and legal standards regarding the use of force. It was in how officers in different jurisdictions envisaged the circumstances in which the scenario took place that led Latin American officers to anticipate that they would shoot the suspects, whereas officers in the other jurisdictions had little expectation that they would open fire in the conditions as they imagined them to be.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-8696216348733392821?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-59260586891330598892008-09-05T23:21:00.000+02:002008-12-22T23:24:19.005+01:00Second Step of the “Public Order & Crowd Management” Seminar is a Success“Public Order & Crowd Management with the focus on the EURO 2008” was the subject of a seminar held in Winterthur, Switzerland on 26 – 29 August 2008. The aim of the 2-step activity was to gain comprehensive information about the preparation phase and the security concept of the European Football Championship 2008, as well as the evaluation and outcome of this tournament. The seminar helped the participants to be aware of different human behaviour around football events, to discuss the challenges in dealing with and managing complex situations in connection with football matches and last but not least to reflect on their own experiences on similar events and to exchange best practice.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=newsdetails&tx_ttnews[cat]=5&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=99&tx_ttnews[backPid]=10&cHash=d994a5f794">Read the whole article</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-5926058689133059889?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-24849060816013949932008-05-22T22:56:00.000+02:002008-12-22T23:20:10.988+01:00Tackling football hooliganismTackling football hooliganism: A quantitative study of public order, policing and crowd psychology.<br />Stott, Clifford; Adang, Otto; Livingstone, Andrew; Schreiber, Martina <br />    <br />Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Vol 14(2), May 2008, 115-141.<br /><br />This paper contributes to the science of crowd dynamics and psychology by examining the social psychological processes related to the relative absence of "hooliganism" at the Finals of the 2004 Union Européenne de Football Association (UEFA) Football (Soccer) Championships in Portugal. Quantitative data from a structured observational study is integrated with data from a questionnaire survey of a group associated ubiquitously with 'hooliganism'--namely England fans. This analysis<br />provides support for the contention that the absence of 'disorder' can be attributed in large part to the non-paramilitary policing style adopted in cities hosting tournament matches. Evidence is presented which suggests that this style of policing supported forms of non-violent collective psychology that, in turn, served to<br />psychologically marginalise violent groups from the wider community of fans. The study highlights the mutually constructive relationships that can be created between psychological theory, research, policing policy and practice, particularly in relation to the successful management of 'public order'. The paper concludes by exploring some of the wider implications of this research for theory, policy, the management of crowds, social conflict, and human rights more generally.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-2484906081601394993?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-20732608963219901662008-04-03T23:32:00.000+02:002008-12-22T23:33:53.046+01:00CEPOL Goes Football CrazyThirty-eight senior police officers from 24 member states took part in the first step of CEPOL ‘Public Order and Crowd Management’ course, held on 25-28 March 2008 at the Police Training Centre in Traiskirchen, Austria. Focussing on the upcoming European Football Championship 2008 (Euro 2008) which starts in June, the participants were able to share experiences as they all work in the area of public order and crowd management.<br /><a href="http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=newsdetails&tx_ttnews[cat]=5&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=87&tx_ttnews[backPid]=10&cHash=46841d7aaf"><br />Read the whole article </a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-2073260896321990166?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-76192387501225100732008-02-23T13:26:00.001+01:002008-02-23T13:39:48.613+01:00Swiss Euro 2008 security audit, Solothurn, February 18, 2008Switzerland's Euro 2008 security strategy is on the right track, but needs better coordination and communication with fans, an independent report concludes.<br />An international panel of football security experts believes the European championship co-hosts can organise a safe tournament in June provided they fine-tune some areas of the security plan.<br />Security expert Professor Otto Adang of the Netherlands led a team of observers that inspected four football matches in Zurich, Basel, Geneva and Bern between August and December last year. He presented the "security audit" findings in Solothurn on Tuesday.<br /><br />Otto Adang's team monitored security arrangements as Switzerland played the Netherlands in Geneva in August, and versus the United States in Basel in October.It also inspected the match between Young Boys and FC Zurich in Bern in November, and the Zurich derby played the following month.The security audit looked at strategy, coordination and implementation, but it focussed on the overall picture rather than analysing stadiums and other details.It also does not look ahead to potential high-risk games during Euro 2008.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-7619238750122510073?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-80572785969344469952008-01-02T20:28:00.000+01:002008-01-26T20:30:47.993+01:00Study into New Year's eve incidents in the Netherlands, january 2008Fights breaking out everywhere, firemen being attacked and Molotov cocktails thrown at riot police, that’s all part of New Year’s Day. Just like firework, oliebollen and ski jumping in Garmish. That is tradition, said police scientist Otto Adang. Adang is investigating incidents around New Year’s Day that were trivialized in the past years on behalf of the Police academy of the Netherlands. “Things that have become traditions cannot be changed overnight,” he said. “If you have tolerated a certain behaviour for years, you can’t go back to zero tolerance just like that. There is also not enough police manpower to enforce that. Organizing huge festivals (like those in Amsterdam and Rotterdam) is one way of giving people to party without setting things on fire or rioting, but that doesn’t always work. In the small villages along the bible belt, New Year is a night with no holds barred. That is worth closer inspection. I suspect that excessive drinking and drugs could have played a role,” said Adang. No one dares say it was a peaceful night.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-8057278596934446995?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-64891314602642827382007-12-28T21:43:00.001+01:002008-12-22T23:31:26.772+01:00Euro 08 security<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ddLaro5fgKA/R3VgW5W_LJI/AAAAAAAAEOE/zxNdTqbci10/s1600-h/HPIM6662.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149127695438654610" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ddLaro5fgKA/R3VgW5W_LJI/AAAAAAAAEOE/zxNdTqbci10/s320/HPIM6662.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The final security details are still being thrashed out between the hosts and participating countries. In February, Switzerland will receive a report from Dutch behavioural scientist Professor Otto Adang, who recently visited the Swiss host cities to evaluate their security measures.<br /></div><div><br /><br />December 14, 2007, swissinfo, Matthew Allen in Zurich</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-6489131460264282738?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-69126061007911532232007-12-13T23:29:00.001+01:002008-12-22T23:37:29.279+01:00Knowledge-Based Public Order PolicingKnowledge-Based Public Order Policing: Principles and Practice<br /><br />Stephen Reicher; Clifford Stott; John Drury; Otto Adang; Patrick Cronin; Andrew Livingstone<br /><br />Policing 2007 1(4):403-415;<br /><br />Much public order policing is still based on the assumption that crowds are inherently irrational and dangerous. We argue that this approach is both misinformed and counter-productive because it can lead to policing interventions that increase the influence of those advocating violence in the crowd. We challenge traditional assumptions about crowd psychology and demonstrate how widespread conflict derives from the interactions between police and crowds. From this, we develop general guidelines as to how policing can reduce crowd violence and lead crowd members themselves to self-police violent groupings in their midst. We then use examples from anti-globalisation protests and the Euro 2004 football championships to show how these guidelines can be applied in practice and how effective they can be. We conclude by arguing that such knowledge-based crowd policing can turn crowd events into opportunities to overcome seemingly intractable conflicts between the police and groups within our society.<br /><a href="http://policing.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/pam067?ijkey=n1vc1aWuzqxsz6P&keytype=ref"><br />Download pdf</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-6912606100791153223?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-68897182275435103122007-09-28T20:58:00.000+02:002008-12-09T11:42:26.480+01:00Evaluating events when massive police action is involved, Lecture, Lyon, september 2007Otto Adang, The best police in the world. Learning at all cost<br />Presentation at the 15th European Senior Police Officers Course (ESPOC) 17 – 21 September 2007<br />“Civil Unrest and Danger for Escalation” (a Challenge for Police Leaders)<br />École Nationale Supérieure de la Police, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, France<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ddLaro5fgKA/Rv1Q00HM28I/AAAAAAAADdo/KjKmIQPuK9U/s1600-h/ensp.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115333620035017666" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ddLaro5fgKA/Rv1Q00HM28I/AAAAAAAADdo/KjKmIQPuK9U/s320/ensp.JPG" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-6889718227543510312?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-47709530137821466492007-06-06T08:12:00.000+02:002007-06-06T08:15:59.957+02:00G-8 Rioting Has Germans Second Guessing Policing Strategy, Spiegel online, June 5 2007By Charles Hawley in Berlin<br />Is it possible to avoid violence at the G-8? For years, police in Europe have been trying to perfect their riot-control strategies. But Saturday's rioting in Rostock has the Germans questioning what they've learned.<br /><br />....<br /><br />The police response to the G-8, named Kavala, has focused heavily on a strategy of de-escalation. Officers were trained to avoid confrontation if possible so as not to provoke the demonstrators.<br />The idea, Otto Adang, chair of public order management at the Dutch police academy, explained to SPIEGEL ONLINE, is to avoid an "us versus them" mentality. It is important, he says, to develop a dialogue with the protesters and to encourage them to see the police as helping the demonstration by preventing violence. And if there is violence, he says, it becomes vital to differentiate between those causing it and those who are not.<br /><br />More Attention to Riot Control<br />"The more a situation escalates, the more your options run out," Adang says. "If you have a confrontation, you enter the confrontation and you try to win it. But even then you have to keep differentiating between people who are being violent and those who are not. There has been more and more attention for this kind of thinking. Elements of this have been around for a longer time, but they are being applied more and more."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-4770953013782146649?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-61529246358233522192007-02-12T23:14:00.000+01:002007-02-12T23:14:19.649+01:00Research Article: Variability in the collective behaviour of England fans at Euro2004by Clifford Stott, Otto Adang, Andrew Livingstone, Martina Schreiber in<br />European Journal of Social Psychology, <a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/114029719">Volume 37, Issue 1</a> , Pages 75 - 100<br /><br />This paper presents an analysis of collective behaviour among England football fans attending the European football championships in Portugal (Euro2004). Given this category's violent reputation, a key goal was to explore the processes underlying their apparent shift away from conflict in match cities. Drawing from the elaborated social identity model of crowd behaviour (ESIM) data were obtained using semi-structured observations and interviews before, during and after the tournament. Qualitative analysis centres first on three key incidents in match cities where the potential for violence was undermined either by self-policing among England fans, or by appropriately targeted police intervention. These are contrasted with two riots involving England fans that occurred in Algarve during the tournament. A phenomenological analysis of England fans' accounts suggests that the contexts created by different forms of policing helped bring to the fore different understandings of what constituted proper and possible behaviour among England fans, and that these changes in identity content underpinned shifts toward and away from collective conflict. The implications of this analysis for the ESIM, understanding public order policing, social change and social conflict are discussed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-6152924635823352219?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1163274651878317242006-11-11T20:41:00.000+01:002008-01-08T12:39:06.332+01:00Presentation "The best police force in the world", November 30, 2006, Solna, Sweden<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6880/53/1600/651508/zweden.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 169px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 128px" height="118" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6880/53/320/715297/zweden.jpg" width="155" border="0" /></a><br />On March 15th 2004, the Swedish National Police Board (Rikspolissyrelsen) decided to improve the capability of the police to act effectively and in accordance with the legal right of the individual in connection with assignments that constitute or may develop into dangerous situations both in everyday situations (national basic tactics) and in extraordinary events (special police tactics).<br /><br />Now that the training process has progressed considerably, the Police Board has decided to develop a long term strategy for knowledge development in the field of special police tactics focused on maintaining and improving the knowledge base and keeping abreast of international trends in this area.<br /><br />The objectives of this strategy are to increase knowledge about what factors contribute to effective operations through applied research, to integrate practice, science and education and to reinforce the use of research results in police education and training.<br /><br />For this purpose, a special police tactics knowledge development group will be set up, that will be headed by prof. dr. Otto Adang in his capacity as visiting professor at <a href="http://www.polisen.se/inter/nodeid=19716&amp;pageversion=1.html">Swedish National Police Academy</a> (Polishögskolan).<br /><br />On November 30th, he will accept his position as visiting professor at Swedish National Police Academy and his function as head of the knowledge development project by delivering the lecture "The best police in the world: learning at all cost..."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-116327465187831724?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1163274949622954782006-11-11T19:53:00.000+01:002006-11-11T20:59:58.376+01:00Presentation "Crowd dynamics, policing and hooliganism at World Cup 2006", November 23, Münster, GermanyPresentation by Otto Adang and Martina Schreiber at CEPOL-course 29/2006 "Public order and crowd management - Security during major events", 21 - 23 November 2006, Police University, Münster, Germany<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-116327494962295478?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1154096697372270172006-07-28T16:21:00.000+02:002006-07-30T23:25:16.010+02:00Article: Assessing the performance of pepper spray in use-of-force encounters: the Dutch experience, Policing, July 2006<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/pepper.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/pepper.0.jpg" border="0" /></a>Authors: Otto M.J. Adang, Robert J. Kaminski, Megan Q. Howell, Jos Mensink In: Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management Year: 2006 Volume: 29 Issue: 2 Page: 282 - 305<br /><br />This paper examines potential correlates of the effectiveness of oleoresin capsicum (OC) or pepper spray and police officer satisfaction with its performance during use-of-force encounters. This is one of very few studies to use multiple-regression to examine correlates of OC effectiveness and officer satisfaction, and it expands upon the prior literature by including additional measures of OC performance.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&amp;contentId=1558850">Read abstract >></a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115409669737227017?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1153346510166578622006-07-19T23:59:00.000+02:002006-07-25T14:24:44.070+02:00Press release: 'Low impact' policing key to overcoming 'hooliganism', June 2006<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/WM2006.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/WM2006.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Press release from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)<br /><br />With the World Cup close at hand, research funded by the Economic and Social Research council has found that the key to overcoming 'hooliganism' at major international football tournaments is 'low impact' policing. Led by Dr Clifford Stott and Dr Otto Adang of the University of Liverpool School of Psychology the research found that while preventing known troublemakers from travelling is important, the way to foster incident-free events is a 'low profile', friendly-but-firm police presence, and dealing with fans on the basis of their behaviour not their reputation.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115334651016657862?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1153345855719358242006-07-19T23:49:00.000+02:002006-07-25T14:25:31.906+02:00Article: Variability in the collective behaviour of England fans at Euro2004, June 2006Paper by Clifford Stott, Otto Adang, Andrew Livingstone & Martina Schreiber Published in European Journal of Social Psychology<br /><br /><div align="left"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/Salvador3.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/Salvador3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Abstract:<br />This paper presents an analysis of collective behaviour among England football fans attending the European football championships in Portugal (Euro2004). Given this category's violent reputation, a key goal was to explore the processes underlying their apparent shift away from conflict in match cities. Drawing from the elaborated social identity model of crowd behaviour (ESIM) data were obtained using semi-structured observations and interviews before, during and after the tournament. Qualitative analysis centres first on three key incidents in match cities where the potential for violence was undermined either by self-policing among England fans, or by appropriately targeted police intervention. These are contrasted with two riots involving England fans that occurred in Algarve during the tournament. A phenomenological analysis of England fans' accounts suggests that the contexts created by different forms of policing helped bring to the fore different understandings of what constituted proper and possible behaviour among England fans, and that these changes in identity content underpinned shifts toward and away from collective conflict. The implications of this analysis for the ESIM, understanding public order policing, social change and social conflict are discussed.<br /><br />Copyright © 2006 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115334585571935824?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1153349821519019262006-04-30T00:53:00.000+02:002006-07-25T14:25:59.403+02:00Presentation: Policing Football Fans in Europe, April 2006, Salvador, BrazilCase studies of the Euro 2000 and Euro 2004 football championships. Presentation by Otto Adang at<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/Bahia_25_4_2006%20(3).0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/Bahia_25_4_2006%20%283%29.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />5th INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON POLICE USE OF FORCE – MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICES OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE POLICING, organised by the<br />FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA /MILITARY POLICE OF BAHIA STATE<br />Salvador de Bahia, Brazil<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115334982151901926?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1153346738919414452006-04-02T00:02:00.001+02:002006-07-20T00:42:22.056+02:00Applications invited for PhD Studentship<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/liverpool%20university.gif"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/liverpool%20university.gif" border="0" /></a><br />Ph.D. Studentship "The policing of 'high risk' crowds at football matches with an international dimension." Applications are invited by the School of Psychology at the University of Liverpool, with a deadline of April, 28th 2006. The studentship is full time for three years and will begin on September 1st, 2006. The successful candidate will receive a stipend approximating Research Council level, tuition fees will be paid and some funds will be available to meet fieldwork costs.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115334673891941445?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1153347196297956462006-03-17T00:07:00.000+01:002006-07-25T14:26:59.870+02:00Presentation: Turning the police into a learning organisation, Dnipropetrovsk, March 17, 2006Turning the police into a learning organisation: integrating working and learning<br /><br />Paper presented by Otto Adang at International scientific-theoretical conference: " World experience on police training and its implementation in Ukraine", organised by the Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs Abstract: The police is a prime example of a knowledge-intensive organisation whose effectiveness and legitimacy in society are largely determined by its capacity to find and apply concrete and effective solutions to continually new and often unpredictable problems. Whilst working and learning are still completely separated in many situations, new concepts are needed where they are related and interwoven more and more. In this paper some initiatives are discussed where working and learning are increasingly integrated: - the new police education in the Netherlands - a European pilot with peer review evaluation teams<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/HPIM3041.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/HPIM3041.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Lenin overseeing election campaign in Dnipropetrovsk<span style="font-size:+0;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115334719629795646?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1153347423444954422005-11-22T00:16:00.000+01:002006-07-20T00:25:19.113+02:00European evaluation team, Glasgow, november 22, 2005<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/Segregation.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/Segregation.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The Old Firm game was being observed by European experts, men who have seen the world's most passionate games in cities such as Rome and Buenos Aires and hope they can learn something from the way Glasgow's derby is policed. One, Otto Adang of the Police Academy of the Netherlands, says everybody in the Netherlands knows about the Old Firm game. "But they don't know the context," he said. "They don't know about the religious side to it."<br /><br />from: The Old Firm peacekeepers by David Leask, Evening Times Online<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115334742344495442?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1153347562266490462005-10-07T00:18:00.000+02:002006-07-20T00:33:21.916+02:00Public order management. Seminar given at Polishögskolan, Solna, Sweden, October 7 2005Preventative tactics, dynamic risk assessment and structured evaluation of police methods were contributing to success in the handling of potentially violent crowd situations in the EU, a public order management researcher and educator has said. Professor Otto M.J. Adang, chair of public order management at the Police Academy of the Netherlands, told a seminar in Stockholm on October 7 that police forces were experiencing success in large crowd situations when they took a more "low-profile" approach that included officers clearly communicating well-defined behaviour limits to crowds, responding quickly and appropriately to quell situations before they became violent and carefully targeting only those people who were actually causing trouble. "There are many options police can take before a situation escalates into violence. There are very few after it has," Dr Adang told the audience of predominantly police instructors at the Polishögskolan seminar. "The trend is moving away from simple riot control to public order management. Just training police to deal with riots is an old-fashioned view. It is much more important to focus on prevention."<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/politie%20Zweden.gif"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/politie%20Zweden.gif" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115334756226649046?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31371522.post-1153381118000024552005-09-20T09:27:00.000+02:002006-07-20T09:38:38.013+02:00New Master Course Criminology and Police Science, Ruhr-University Bochum (D)<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/1600/Bochum%20kriminologie.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6880/53/320/Bochum%20kriminologie.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />A one year, compact, postgraduate studies focused on skills, with an internationally approved Master Degree at the Faculty of Law, Ruhr-University, Bochum (Germany). Target group are students with a degree in law or social sciences, as well as police officers, social workers, and other people with a suitable degree and qualified professional experience. The offer is targeted to 25 students per year both from Germany and abroad. A two-year distance-learning program will follow in2006. The focus on the impartingof specific expert knowledge combined with theoretic basic knowledge, enabling the further acquisition and implementation of scientific cognition into the professional practice, methodical-analytical competence, professional area specific keyqualifications, in the fields of Criminology, Police science, Social work, methods. Besides the chair's full-time employees, in the MasterDegree Program about a dozen associate lecturers, both from Germany and abroad, coming from science and practice, are involved (from Justice and Police, Private Business andConsulting), amongst others O. Adang (NL), U. Ewald(D/NL), Th. Holzer (D) R. Kasecker (D), A. Klukkert(D), B. Lange (D), M. Mona (CH), B. Prestel (CH/D), M.Punch (NL/GB), J. Reichertz (D), M. Schreiber (D/NL),R. Stuchlik (D), H. Viehmann (D).<br /><br />Prof. dr. Otto Adang and Martina Schreiber from the Police Academy of the Netherlands are responsible for the module "Applied police studies".<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31371522-115338111800002455?l=policestudies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954086457208602671noreply@blogger.com0// Unknown error