Public order policing: A tough act to follow?

This paper develops typologies and craft dimensions of protest policing. It is argued that 'good' police work in liberal democracies is integrative. Public order police use dimensions of intensity, visibility, immediacy and spatiality to facilitate the staging of grievances while managing the dynamics of expression. However, current protest policing in Canada has morphed community-based into intelligence-led priorities to create a hybrid form which is celebrated by police practitioners but brings with it dangers to consent policing.