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

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Introduction to the Laws of War / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Conduct of Hostilities and Public Order Operations / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Protection of Detainees / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Protection of the Vulnerable / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Responses to Terrorism / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Introduction to the Laws of War / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Conduct of Hostilities and Public Order Operationssands / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Protection of Detainees / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Protection of the Vulnerable / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Responses to Terrorism / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague Convention IV of 1907) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Annex to the Convention: Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague Regulations of 1907) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (Geneva Convention I) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (Geneva Convention II) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Geneva Convention III) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Geneva Convention IV) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III) / Editor Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension.