| ID | 185071 |
| Title Proper | FROM CRIME FIGHTING TO COUNTERINSURGENCY |
| Other Title Information | the Transformation of London’s Special Patrol Group in the 1970s |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Go, Julian |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The Special Patrol Group (SPG) of the London Metropolitan Police was formed as a crime-fighting unit in 1965. Beginning in the early 1970s, however, it underwent a transformation of ‘colonial counterinsurgenization’. The SPG shifted its initial role and increasingly took on the characteristics of a colonial counterinsurgency police force operating in the metropolis. The change is seen in the SPG’s approach to public order policing and crime prevention, especially in London’s African-Caribbean communities. The new counterinsurgency tactics of the SPG in those communities in turn generated the conditions for the very sorts of metropolitan uprisings the SPG had sought to subdue. |
| `In' analytical Note | Small Wars and Insurgencies Vol. 33, No.4-5; Jun-Jul 2022: p.654-672 |
| Journal Source | Small Wars and Insurgencies Vol: 33 No 4-5 |
| Key Words | Racism ; Counterinsurgency ; Colonialism ; Militarization ; Empire ; Policing ; London Metropolitan Police ; Special Patrol Group |