Speakers
Dr Koshka Duff, Author, Abolish the Police, Lecturer, Nottingham University
Thomas Marriott, Designer and Researcher, Goldsmiths College
Dr Nikhaela Wicks, University of Kent

Moderator
Jennifer Fleetwood, Goldsmiths College

The Panel discussion focused on the use of excess force and other forms of violence that can typify interactions with private security and police forces. Amidst recent revelations about the working culture at the MET, failing detention centers, and questions around far-right actions, the question of how well communities are cared for and served by existing systems of policing and security are ever present. Is reform possible, or do we need to radically rethink?

Speakers

Markus Himanen, Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN)
Mikko Kemppainen, General Counsel, Securitas Finland
Libin Mohamed, Secretary General, African Anti-Racism Society Finland (AFARS)
Pilvi Takala, artist

Moderator

Javiera Marchant Aedo, Equality expert and educator

Increasingly, the private security industry is playing a crucial role in upholding public order and defining what safety means in our society. Contracted guards are obliged by law to perform their job in a peaceful manner, without bias and prevent discrimination, yet work protocols and the system they operate within constantly produce discriminatory and exclusionary practices in public spaces, such as ethnic profiling and excessive use of force. In this discussion, various experts address the way in which the industry creates unsafe environments, changes that have been implemented in security organisations to tackle this. and what more can be done to make public space safer for all.

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Stopped – ethnic profiling in Finland