Kettling

The police cordon is a tactic in the police operation, which is used in demonstrations, elevators and other gatherings to control crowds. A dense ring of police officers formed around the Assembly, making it the participants about by use of direct force impossible to leave the place. The police cordon is legally a form of security detention.

Tactical Basics

Scope

Boilers are used against demonstrators who threaten their conduct public safety or will do so in the future, according to assessment of the police leadership. Suitable boilers are particularly to prevent riots or mitigation of its further course or prevent. The police boiler is also used as a prevention against demonstrations.

The police cordon is usually not formed by the normal patrol officers, but by using hundreds, as these units necessarily ensure protection during demonstrations and are trained and equipped for such a task.

Procedure

The police go in a straight line toward a group of people and then begin to encircle this. Depending on the structural situation, a police boiler also be formed by taking advantage of terrain conditions. In part, the enclosure is done by several sides at once. If the police have managed to get out of this encirclement, no one can escape more, the boiler is formed. Most in the phase of boiler formation, ie the transition period from circling the finished boiler, single interferer are spent with pressure in the center of the boiler.

An extended approach is the so-called migrant boiler, which is usually applied to moving demonstration trains.

Target

The aim of encirclement is to restrict the people of their freedom of movement and so discourage potential and other acts of violence against legal interests of the person or the public. Can also be prevented by moving demonstration trains or similar gatherings of people in certain directions.

After the encirclement it may also be possible that from the boiler any or all persons are transported to determine the identity or they continue to keep in custody ( even after the dissolution of the boiler ) and supplied to the prosecution.

History

A first application of the police kettle in the open air took place in Germany in 1986 in Hamburg. This was preceded by two nationwide mass demonstrations, after the Chernobyl disaster in Germany on June 7, 1986 took place, one against the under construction reprocessing plant Wacker village and into the stationary construction Brokdorf nuclear power plant in Schleswig-Holstein Kleve. Although both demonstrations were banned by the regulatory authorities, demonstrated in both places hundreds of thousands of people against nuclear energy. This led to massive clashes between protesters and police forces. In protest of the police action, it came the next day in Hamburg for a protest demonstration, which ended in later court as unconstitutional classified Hamburger boiler. The Hamburg boiler was the trigger for the establishment of the "Hamburger signal ", an association of Hamburg police officers who publicly spoke out against this police operation. From the Hamburg signal the Federal Association of critical police officers emerged.

Terms of Use

In making the vessel is engaged in the fundamental rights to bodily integrity and freedom of movement.

Police Tactical are shields, partial and complete encirclement an easy and effective way to prevent violence and well - maintain the order as at football matches and counter-demonstrations. Since the encircled addition to the free movement of persons deprived some very practical needs such as drinking water or toilet visits are withheld the test of time with over the legal weight as well as public response. The several hours police cordon at the G7 summit in Munich 1992 was therefore very controversial. A mass-scale and non-selective encirclement may also be regarded as disproportionate, as it can also affect non- disturbers.

In the wake of police boilers have occasional litigation. A frequently cited example is a police cordon during a demonstration at a place in 2001 found CASTOR transport. 2005, the complaint involved a case was given by the Federal Constitutional Court law. She had been encircled in Dannenberg in an unauthorized demonstration until around noon two hours in the open field and then taken away by prisoner transport and stayed at various stations until the early hours in police custody. The decision, however, was and is no prohibition of the boiler, per se, but criticized the circumstances in police custody in connection.