Tactical and Psychological Peculiarities of Carrying out the Negotiations by the Police with Different Types of Crowd

  • D. Overschenko Postgraduate Student of the Postgraduate and Doctoral Programs of the Odessa State University of Internal Affairs, Odesa, Ukraine; ORCID 0000-0002-5549-6408
Keywords: the police officer, communication issues, negotiations, mass riots, types of crowd

Abstract

The important direction in police officers’ activity is carrying out negotiations while conducting peaceful assemblies and other mass events. During mass riots there may occur different types of crowd and the competent behavior of the police officers with different types of crowd is very significant. For approbation in Ukraine European standards in area of providing public safety and order in public places due to carrying out peaceful assemblies in Chief departments of National police of Ukraine were 

created constantly functioning work groups of police officers in area of communication with managers of mass events. The cited groups were made for carrying out negotiations with both managers of mass events and participants. It was emphasized that negotiation activity of police officers of preventive communication group is quite complicated and diversified, that requires mobility, flexibility, and competence. Depending on type of crowd, the police officers acts will differ. It was also determined, that police officers must definitely know the characteristic of types of crowd, main principles and rules of carrying out of the professional functions while providing public safety and order during mass riot. In this article the author provided scientific and practice recommendations about tactical and psychological peculiarities of carrying out the negotiations by the police officers on communication issues during mass riots with different types of crowd. There was described the characteristic of different types of crowd (occasional, conventional, expressive, ecstatic, aggressive, panic, money-grabbing and rebel), psychological peculiarities of these types of crowd and were proposed the chief rules of professional functions realizing by the police officers on communication issues. It was emphasized, that designated recommendations will facilitate improvement of communicative competence of the preventive communication police officers that determines quality and effectiveness of negotiation activity during mass riots. The cited recommendations will provide improvement of communicative competence of police officers of preventive communication group that determines the quality and effectiveness of negotiation activity.

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Author Biography

D. Overschenko
Postgraduate Student of the Postgraduate and Doctoral Programs of the Odessa State University of Internal Affairs, Odesa, Ukraine; ORCID 0000-0002-5549-6408

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Psychological support of law enforcement