Enter the . Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, a team of military tacticians, legal scholars, and veteran officers set out to create the first systematic guide to "civil disorder." The result, published in 1971, was POMAN.
One of the most legally aggressive sections of POMAN allowed officers to arrest individuals before they committed any public order offense, based solely on “reasonable suspicion of future breach of the peace.” This effectively created a category of Critics argued it gutted the presumption of innocence. public order manual poman 1971
The manual outlined various techniques and strategies for maintaining public order, including: Enter the
POMAN 1971 was formally superseded in 1999 by the (commonly called MOG 1999), which was itself updated after the 2011 UK riots. However, the DNA of POMAN remains. One of the most legally aggressive sections of