ABSTRACT

The Special Patrol Group (SPG) of the London Metropolitan Police was formed as a crime-fighting unit in 1965. Beginning in the early 1970s, however, it underwent a transformation of ‘colonial counterinsurgenization’. The SPG shifted its initial role and increasingly took on the characteristics of a colonial counterinsurgency police force operating in the metropolis. The change is seen in the SPG’s approach to public order policing and crime prevention, especially in London’s African-Caribbean communities. The new counterinsurgency tactics of the SPG in those communities in turn generated the conditions for the very sorts of metropolitan uprisings the SPG had sought to subdue.

摘要

伦敦大都会警察局的特别巡逻队 (SPG) 于 1965 年成立，作为打击犯罪的单位。然而，从 1970 年代初开始，它经历了“殖民镇压”的转变。SPG 改变了其最初的角色，并越来越具有在大都市中运作的殖民平叛警察部队的特征。这种变化体现在 SPG 对公共秩序警务和犯罪预防的方法上，尤其是在伦敦的非洲-加勒比社区。SPG 在这些社区中的新平叛策略反过来为 SPG 试图制服的各种大都市起义创造了条件。