Policing G20 and large-scale protests
On the 1st and 2nd of April 2009, protests were held in the City of London to coincide with the G20 summit. Violent confrontation between protestors and police occurred and the police found themselves under enormous public scrutiny. Following these events, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) was asked by the Metropolitan Police Service to conduct a review of the policing operation and to test the arguments for and against the use of police public order tactics from public, legal and operational aspects. To inform the review, HMIC commissioned Ipsos to conduct a public opinion survey. The survey provided HMIC with greater understanding of the public's attitudes towards the police, measured opinions on police performance at the G20 protests in London and gauged the level of tolerance among the public for tactics used by the police when managing large-scale protests. HMIC produced a report following their review titled `Adapting to Protest' and Ipsos's findings are used throughout. A summary report of the public opinion survey and a topline report presenting survey results are provided below:
Technical details Ipsos's survey was conducted over the period 29 May to 4 June 2009. The findings are based on 1,726160face-to-face interviews160with a nationally representative sample of respondents aged 15 years or more in England and Wales.
