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POLICING STRIKES: AN HISTORICAL U TURN

01 January 1991

POLICING STRIKES: AN HISTORICAL U TURN
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 006476
R Reiner , University of Bristol Faculty of Law
Policing, Summer, 1985 1(3) pp138-148

Reasons for the decline in violence during industrial
disputes in the first part of the century are discussed
as a background to an analysis of the resurgence of violence
from 1970. Precipitating factors include the growth in
central coordination of police operations and the increased
use of riot control equipment. The policing of the 1984/5
miners strike aroused considerable disquiet over the
use of police powers and justifies an official public inquiry
by a Royal Commission. 36 references

United Kingdom, civil liberties, National Reporting Centre ,
mining industry, public order

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