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Crowd control is a public security practice in which large crowds are managed in order to prevent the outbreak of crowd crushes, affray, fights involving drunk and disorderly people or riots. Crowd crushes in particular can cause many hundreds of fatalities. [1] Effective crowd management is about managing expected and unexpected crowd ...
Riot police kettling protesters at the Camp for Climate action, part of the 2009 G20 London summit protests. Police kettling protesters at the Opernring in Vienna, part of the protest against coronavirus restrictions. Kettling (also known as containment or corralling) [ 1 ] is a police tactic for controlling large crowds during demonstrations ...
An element of the Georgia State Patrol Mobile Field Force pictured in 2016. A mobile field force (MFF), within the context of United States law enforcement, is a large element of police officers specially organized to support anti-riot operations through the use of maneuver tactics aimed at dispersing crowds during their embryonic phase or extracting agitators and leaders from larger groups.
A long-range acoustic device (LRAD), acoustic hailing device (AHD) or sound cannon is a specialized loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance. It has been used as a method of crowd control, which has caused permanent hearing damage, having an extremely high decibel capacity (up to 160 dB measured at one meter ...
Riot police often use special equipment called riot gear to help protect themselves and for offensive use in riot control. Riot gear typically includes personal armor, batons, riot shields, and riot helmets. Many riot police teams also deploy specialized non-lethal weapons, such as: pepper spray, tear gas, riot guns, rubber bullets, stun ...
Crowd control barriers During the 2014 London Marathon, a police officer keeps spectators behind the barrier. Crowd control barriers (also referred to as crowd control barricades, with some versions called a French barrier or bike rack in the USA, and mills barriers in Hong Kong [1]) are commonly used at many public events.
Riot control agent (RCA) Riot control agents (sometimes called RCAs) are non-lethal lachrymatory agents used for riot control. Most commonly used riot control agents are pepper spray and various kinds of tear gas. These chemicals disperse a crowd that could be protesting or rioting, or to clear a building. [11]
Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback or camelback. Their day-to-day function is typically picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control because of their mobile mass and height advantage and increasingly in the UK for crime prevention and high visibility policing roles. The added height and visibility that ...