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Home Secretary's reaction to riots [1981]

01 January 1991

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Home Secretary's reaction to riots [1981]
refdoc September=1991

D8103447
Public order

Further report and comment on the recent riots, principally in
London. Emphasises varying attitudes to the ways in which
rioters and looters should be dealt with by the police and
courts, including the move by the Home Secretary to make army
camps available for people arrested during riots, and the
likelihood of a package of "tougher measures" including "snatch
squads", water cannon and armoured vehicles, to be announced
later this week.

Standard (City P) 81/07/13 p1; (Clos P) p2,4,7; Financial Times
81/07/14 p1,32; Guardian p1,3,16,26; Times p1,2,12,13,26;
Telegraph p1,2,28

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