Routledge International Handbook of Policing Crises and Emergencies

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

List of Contributors

Introduction: Policing Extreme Events

Gary Cordner and Martin Wright

Part 1

Policing Disasters: Context and Critical Reflections

Willie Baker

1. The Gloucestershire Water Emergency 2007

Timothy Brain

2. Japanese Police Activities in a State of Emergency: Focusing on the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Arata Hirai

3. Hurricane Katrina: Reflecting History and Forcing Change in the New Orleans Police Department

Danny Murphy

4. The Experience of Responding to the Wenchuan Earthquake: Coping Mechanisms and the Role of the Police

Huan Zhang, Jiang Feng, and Guan Ren

5. Shifting Patterns for Police Service during the 2021 Texas Ice Storm: Implications for Policy and Practice

Adam D. Vaughan, Duwayne A. Poorboy, and Katlyn C. Casagrande

6. Policing Rail Emergencies

William Jordan

7. Implications of Climate Change for Policing

Richard W. Myers and Joseph A. Schafer

8. Resilience Policing and Climate Change: Adaptive Responses to Crises and Emergencies

Tariro Mutongwizo, Clifford Shearing, and Jarrett Blaustein

Part 2

Policing Public Health Emergencies: Context and Critical Reflections

Victoria Herrington

9. Policing with New Habits: How the Covid-19 Lockdown Fostered a Harm Reduction Ethos in Durban

       Monique Marks and Jennifer D. Wood

10. The Application of Police Unmanned Aerial Vehicles during the Covid-19 Pandemic in China

       Xing Yuqiu, Jiang Feng, and Xie Chuanyu

11. Policing the Covid-19 Pandemic in India: Process, Impact, and Challenges

       T. K. Vinod Kumar

12. Policing a Pandemic in Malaysia

       Phaik Kin Cheah, Suresh G. Suppiah, and Bakri Zainal Abidin

13. Policing the Pandemic in Two Western European Countries: Comparison between France and the Netherlands

         Jacques de Maillard, Jan Terpstra, and Sebastian Roché

14. Policing through the Pandemic: Lessons Learnt in Exceptional Times

           Gordon Marnoch

15. The Impact of Changing Working Patterns for Police Personnel in England and Wales during COVID-19 Lockdown 1

       Jenny Fleming and Jennifer Brown

Part 3

Policing Political Protest: Context and Critical Reflections

Clifford Stott

16. Policing the 2021 US Capitol Insurrection

Edward R. Maguire

17. Charlottesville 2017: Looking Back and Beyond the Summer of Hate

Brian N. Williams, Domenick Bailey, and Zachary Harris

18. Policing Riots: Not Your Usual Saturday-Night Violence

Garth den Heyer

19. The Noise before Defeat: Portland’s Response to the Civil Unrest Associated with the Murder of George Floyd

Greg Stewart

20. Policing the Post-Conflict Society in Covid-19: Security and Social Control in Hong Kong

Lawrence Ka-ki Ho

Part 4

Policing Terror and Conflict: Context and Critical Reflections

John Parkinson                       

21. The Boston Marathon Bombing: The Successful Application of Crisis Response, Management, and Community-Centered Policing

Brenda J. Bond-Fortier and Edward F. Davis

22. Policing during a Crisis: London Terrorist Attacks in 2017

Lucy D’Orsi

23. The System Is Blinking Red: Lessons Learned from Policing in the Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks

Mark Fallon and Maria Hartwig

24. Policing Crisis in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, and Iraq

Gavin Boyd

25. Post-Conflict Policekeeping: The Response to the Tensions and the Role of the Participating Police Force (PPF) in the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI)

Garth den Heyer

26. Conflict Policing in East Europe: Promoting Stress-Resilient Officers Even under Extraordinary Circumstances

Robert Peacock, Tracy Hardy, Tom Monastyrski, and Svitlana Bilogurova

27. The Lessons Learned from the Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Terrorist Attack by Aum Shinrikyo on March 29 1995

Yoshiki Kobayashi

Part 5

The Police Response to Public Mass Violence: Context and Critical Reflections

Christopher S. Koper

28. ‘An Act of Domestic Terrorism’: The Case of Christopher Dorner

Craig D. Uchida and Dennis Kato

29. The Orlando Pulse Nightclub Mass Shooting

Ross Wolf and Mark J. Canty

30. Policing the Deadliest Mass Shooting in Modern U.S. History: The Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Festival Incident

Tamara D. Herold and Joseph M. Lombardo

31. Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Masjidain, New Zealand, 15 March 2019

Mark Evans

32. The Oslo and Utøya Terrorist Attack, 22 July 2011

Trond Myklebust and Johannes Knutsson

Part 6

Policing Crises and Emergencies: Conclusions

33. Policing at the Convergence of Disasters, Disease, and Disorder: Where Does the Profession Go from Here?

Brian N. Williams, Seong C. Kang, and Katie E. Cox

34. Policing Crises and Emergencies: Conclusions

Gary Cordner and Martin Wright

Index

Biography

Gary Cordner is an academic director of the education and training section at the Baltimore Police Department and a professor emeritus at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Martin Wright was a police officer for 30 years and is a visiting fellow at the International Centre for Policing and Security, University of South Wales, UK. He is the creator of the Retail Radio Links scheme and the Virtual Police Volunteers programme.

'After two years of the COVID pandemic we have become used to seeing the police as the main agency handling a global crisis but, despite that event that affected all mankind, we have yet to reflect on the lessons nor have we reflected on the lessons for the police and society from the policing of floods, natural and manmade disasters. This book is timely, the comparative approach is welcome and the global coverage a major asset.'

Peter Neyroud, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge

'This handbook provides critical insights and lessons learned during some of the world’s most significant and tragic events causing loss of property and life. Uniquely, the handbook doesn’t only look behind us for lessons learned, but also offers insights into current and future extreme events related to changing social and environmental conditions, making it an essential resource for current and future policing and public safety leaders as well as others within and outside of government.'

James Burch, President, National Policing Institute 

'The contributors to this handbook include police executives who have had to respond to mass shootings, terrorist attacks, riots, winter storms, floods, train wrecks, and the Covid pandemic. These kinds of extreme emergencies present different challenges from everyday policing. This book shares a wealth of practical knowledge with today's and tomorrow's police leaders.'

Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum

'A handbook addressing the role of the police in responding to crises (be they natural or man-made) is long overdue. In this task, the editors have done a fine job of bringing together a range of academics and practitioners from across the world to engage with those issues and events which define this area of study. An integral element of this book are the critical commentaries which are used to reframe the recurrent themes within an academic context and, in turn, provoke further reflection and discussion. This comprehensive and thorough volume deserves to become a central resource in this area of police studies.'

Tom Cockcroft, Professor of Legal and Social Justice, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)