ABSTRACT
There are indications amidst a growing body of research that contemporary ‘Western’ public order policing is increasingly moving away from an overridingly reactive, incident-led orientation to one combining such a ‘paramilitary’ approach with a more proactive emphasis on intelligence-led contingency planning, negotiation and low-profi le or ‘soft hat’ policing based on accommodation (P.A.J. Waddington 2003; della Porta and Reiter 1998a; McPhail, Schweingruber and McCarthy 1998; Brearley and King 1996; King and Brearley 1996). This chapter questions the consolidation of this trend in respect of the policing of transnational (and specifi cally anti-globalization) protest by examining key recent events in Canada, culminating in the 2002 G8 Summit meeting held in the remote Rocky Mountains location of Kananaskis, Alberta, and related protests in Calgary and Ottawa.
