Police who are organized, deployed, trained or equipped to confront crowds, protests, or riots
Not to be confused with Police riot.
Minnesota State Patrol during the George Floyd protests on Friday, May 29, 2020, equipped with bullet proof vests, helmets with face guards, and large wooden batons for defense against violent protests.
Riot police are police who are organized, deployed, trained or equipped to confront crowds, protests or riots.
Riot police may be regular police officers who act in the role of riot police in particular situations, or they may be separate units organized within or in parallel to regular police forces. Riot police are used in a variety of different situations and for a variety of different purposes. They may be employed to control riots as their name suggests, to disperse or control crowds, to maintain public order or discourage criminality, or to protect people or property.
Riotpolice are police who are organized, deployed, trained or equipped to confront crowds, protests or riots. Riotpolice may be regular police officers...
A policeriot is a riot carried out by the police; more specifically, it is a riot that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining...
including four stabbings. On the night of the riot, nearly 100 arrests were made by the Vancouver police, including 85 for breach of peace, eight for public...
RiotPolice Unit (機動隊, Kidō-tai) are the rapid reaction forces of Japanese prefectural police. These units are not only riotpolice, but a type of emergency...
riots is often a difficult task for police forces. They may use tear gas or CS gas to control rioters. Riotpolice may use less-than-lethal methods of...
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "Long, hot summer of 1967"...
riot squads may also use Long Range Acoustic Devices, water cannons, armoured fighting vehicles, aerial surveillance, police dogs or mounted police on...
2011 England riots, more widely known as the London riots, were a series of riots between 6 and 11 August 2011. Thousands of people rioted in cities and...
model". Observers have noted the militarizing of the policing of protests. Since the 1970s, riotpolice have fired at protesters using guns with rubber bullets...
The 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, was a series of clashes between mainly black youths and the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, London, between...
New York City PoliceRiot (New York, United States) 1860 – Lambing Flat riots (New South Wales, now in Australia) 1861 – Election Riots (St. John's, Newfoundland...
from August 11 to 16, 1965. The riots were motivated by anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department, as well as grievances...
Like most police support unit vehicles, TSG vans are equipped with mesh window shields and officers are equipped with acrylic glass riot shields, visored...
announcement. Widespread looting, assault, and arson occurred during the riots, which local police forces had difficulty controlling. The situation in the Los Angeles...
used by riotpolice to create makeshift barricades against protesters. Police aviation consists of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, while police watercraft...
Support (TORS) Public Order and Riot Squad (PORS) Northern Territory Police Territory Response Group (TRG) Queensland Police Special Emergency Response Team...
during another police search. The second death was the murder of Keith Blakelock, the third police officer since 1833 to be killed in a riot in Britain....
A riot shield is a lightweight protection device, typically deployed by police and some military organizations, though also utilized by protestors. Riot...
A sports riot is a riot that occurs during or after sporting events. Sports riots occur worldwide. Most riots are known to occur after the event is done...
"Riotpolice did kill Blair Peach". The Times. p. 4. Hughes, Mark; Milmo, Cahal (28 April 2010). "How a riot in Southall became a symbol of police corruption"...
fulfilling riotpolice, police tactical unit, and search and rescue roles. Full-time riotpolice can also be augmented by regular police trained in riot duties...
Indonesian National Police (Polri), resulting in the riotpolice firing tear gas and water cannons. In the capital city of Jakarta, the police confirmed that...
activists and unhoused LGBT individuals fought back when the police became violent. The riots are widely considered the watershed event that transformed...
clashes between protesters and Berkut special riotpolice resulted in the deaths of 108 protesters and 13 police officers, and the wounding of many others...
were deployed. An estimated 300 police officers were dispatched to deal with the rioting. A witness reported that rioters at the scene were intoxicated...
attacks on ambulances and police officers. Travel warnings for Australia were issued by some countries but were later removed. The riots were widely condemned...
constable, police retreated and warned the crowd to disperse. Shortly after the riot squad congregated on Thurlow St. on the West side, police fired tear...
together against the wealthy who controlled the city's police and the state militia. The riot resulted in the largest number of civilian casualties due...
some armed, walked to the Capitol, with hundreds breaching police perimeters. Among the rioters were leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia...
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