Essential rules of behaviour for police in armed conflict, disturbance and tension : : legal framework, international cases and instruments / / Ralph Crawshaw, Leif Holmstrom.

• Superior document: Raoul Wallenberg Institute Professional Guides to Human Rights ; Volume 9
• VerfasserIn: Crawshaw, Ralph,; Holmström, Leif, 1948-
• TeilnehmendeR: Holmström, Leif, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Raoul Wallenberg Institute professional guides to human rights ; Volume 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (768 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Introduction to the Laws of War /; Conduct of Hostilities and Public Order Operations /; Protection of Detainees /; Protection of the Vulnerable /; Responses to Terrorism /; Conduct of Hostilities and Public Order Operationssands /; Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague Convention IV of 1907) /; Annex to the Convention: Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague Regulations of 1907) /; Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (Geneva Convention I) /; Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (Geneva Convention II) /; Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Geneva Convention III) /; Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Geneva Convention IV) /; Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) /; Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) /; Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III) /
• ISBN: 9004252282
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ralph Crawshaw, Leif Holmstrom.

The primary focus of this book is the laws of war, also referred to as the international law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law. There are two aspects to the laws of war, jus ad bellum, the rules governing resort to armed conflict, and jus in bello, the rules governing the conduct of armed conflict. The purpose of the book is to inform police officials about the latter. It is also written for other State officials, including the military, who may carry out police operations, educators and trainers of police and those who monitor or investigate police or otherwise seek to hold them accountable. In addition to considering rules of behaviour in actual armed conflict, the book focuses on police conduct in those forms of conflict that fall below the armed conflict threshold, that is to say situations of internal disturbance and tension. Whilst the laws of war are not legally applicable in such situations, it is argued here that some of its principles and provisions should form an important element in the strategy and tactics of policing civil disturbances, especially when they are serious in terms of scale or intensity of violence.