| Summary: | 碩士 === 中央警察大學 === 犯罪防治研究所 === 103 === In recent years, because of the change of economic environment and the deepening of people’s self-awareness, people feel their rights are not protected by government policies and their demands not well responded. Therefore, mass movement is on the rise. It’s notable that protesters become younger. Activist groups use social media for networking and garner considerable attention. It’s worth researching that the police on the frontline, when tackling the new style mass movement, should have the policy of prevention advance with times, in respect of the spirit of law and order.
This research will discuss the cause of mass movement disorder, analyze the problems of laws and on duty police when preventing and controlling disorder, and seek effective ways to prevent and control mass movement disorder. Adopting the theory of Situational Crime Prevention as a framework, and employing as an research example the mass movement event which happened at Zongzheng First Precinct, Taipei City Police Department , this research tries to understand the common mass movement disorder behaviors and the current mass movement trend. In order to analyze on duty police’s opinions and advices on the cause of disorder and the policy of prevention, this research also interviews former policemen of Zongzheng First Precinct, Taipei City Police Department and other backup law officers. Through on duty police’s experience sharing, this research brings into the framework their thoughts and behaviors. It also discusses the effectiveness and limits of the policies employed to prevent against mass movement disorder. This research will coordinate the interviews and advices with the theory of Situational Crime Prevention to conclude a prevention policy.
This research finds that employing the following policies from the theory of Situational Crime Prevention: (1) increasing disorder prevention: with the help of “hardening the targets”, increasing policemen deployment and daily safety maintainability of important areas in the precinct; with the help of “roads control” and “access screening”, enforcing important access control to prevent the intrusion and chaos of persons with motivations. (2) increasing risk of disorder behavior: when dealing with protesters intending to bring up chaos, who may make use of the anonymity and sensationalizing in mass movement to create disorder, it’s useful to employ ”enforcing formal surveillance”. For example, increasing plain clothes to gather evidence and deploying security officers to identify suspicious persons on the scene, or to know about suspects’ possible identities using social media. If there are suspicious persons on the scene, assigning policemen in charge of one on one surveillance so as to increase disorder risk. (3) decreasing the cause of disorder: it is helpful to modify the schedule of target persons, or to make a plan B for marching routes. In doing so, it will prevent the clash between target persons and crowds, therefore decreasing the possibility of disorder. (4) decreasing the stimulation of disorder: it helps to enforcing discipline before deployment, so as to decrease the stimulation of disorder when provoked by protesters. (5) removing the excuses of disorder: through negotiation in advance to “set up rules”, we can demand participants to follow regulations. Also, using methods like “post instruction” to enforce laws, to inform them of how the police will maintain order and the bottom line of expression of freedom. In doing so, it can avoid possible confrontation.
The research recommendations are that when enforcing laws, the law enforcement agency should take the public perception into consideration. Try to sympathize with protesters and communicate with them smoothly. Furthermore, the justice and legislative departments as the support of public order should provide protection for mass movement participants. Relevant institutions should allow the police to be administrative neutral and to have the power to maintain order without politically intervention. Last but not least, for possible sudden disturbance, the law enforcement agency should advance with times, understand public opinions, and be proficient in information gathering. The police should build a data base for collecting the past histories of activist groups, in order that relevant agencies can quickly figure out the backgrounds, past protest techniques and confrontation situations of these groups and their members, which will help prevent disorder and guarantee a smooth mass movement.
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