Orgreave: The Service Speaks

2024年将是1984-5年矿工罢工40周年，这场罢工留下了对矿区警察的怨恨和不信任，一直持续到今天。英国广播公司的摄像机记录下了这场“奥格里夫之战”，18支英国军队的警察和大约5000名罢工矿工之间发生了冲突。所有具有历史意义的事件都值得参与者的口述历史。人类的寿命为进行和撰写这类研究提供了一个机会之窗。这些事件的后果可能导致长期的诉讼和痛苦，这可能妨碍坦诚。希尔斯堡足球场的灾难就是一个例子，客观的口述历史可能仍然是不可能的。机会之窗的打开是由诉讼、研究伦理和敏感性等因素决定的。窗户的关闭是由相关人员的死亡决定的。1984年新入职的警察现在可能已经快60岁了，所以口述矿工罢工警察历史的机会还会持续几年。拟议的研究将使用叙事调查和视觉方法论方法来捕捉社会表征过程，如感觉和图像。它提供了解决个人、群体或组织现象的模糊性、复杂性和动态性的潜力（Mitchell & Egudo 2003）。这项研究并不一定要解决这个历史上有争议的事件的“对与错”或“真相”，也不是要制定一个科学的解释，而是要解决我们如何赋予经验意义和反思的认识论问题。拟议研究的结果将有助于当前关于这一事件四十周年的辩论，探讨在矿工罢工中发挥作用的因素是什么，使官员倾向于或远离程序正义。鉴于这一历史性和特殊的工业纠纷的重要性，该研究的结果将引起各学科学者的兴趣。我们认为，它还将推动当代对警务程序正义概念的思考，程序正义指的是某人认为有权的人以公平和公正的方式应用程序或做出决定的程度。除了捕捉到尚未被记录的社会历史的重要视角之外，这项研究还具有调查在“法律和秩序”管理下的相当大的内乱时期执行公共服务和维持治安的经验的潜力。

The year 2024 will mark forty years since the Miners' Strike of 1984-5 which left a legacy of resentment and distrust towards the police in mining areas which endures to this day. The 'Battle of Orgreave', was captured by BBC cameras and involved confrontation between police from eighteen UK forces and some 5000 striking miners.All events of historic significance merit an oral history of those who participated. The human life span imposes a window of opportunity for the conduct and writing of such studies. The aftermath of such events may entail a long history of litigation and distress which may preclude candour. The Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster is an instance where an objective oral history is probably still impossible. The opening of the window of opportunity is determined by factors of litigation, research ethics and sensitivity. The closing of the window is determined by the death of those involved. A police officer new in the career in 1984 would now be in his or her late sixties, so the window of opportunity for an oral history of policing the miners' strike remains open for a few years yet.The proposed research will use narrative inquiry and visual methodology approaches capturing social representation processes such as feelings and images. It offers the potential to address ambiguity, complexity, and dynamism of individuals, groups, or organisational phenomena (Mitchell & Egudo 2003). This research will not seek to necessarily address the 'rights or wrongs' or the 'truth' of this contentious event in history, nor to formulate a scientific explanation, but rather to address the epistemological question of how we endow experience with meaning and reflection. The findings from the proposed study will contribute to current debates on the fortieth anniversary of this event by asking what factors were at play in the miners' strike to move officers towards or away from procedural justice. The findings from the proposed study will be of interest to scholars across a variety of disciplines, given the significance of this historic and exceptional industrial dispute. We think it will also move forward contemporary thinking on the concept of procedural justice in policing - which refers to the degree to which someone perceives people in authority to apply processes, or make decisions about them, in a fair and just way. Aside from capturing an important perspective of social history that has not yet been recorded, this research has the potential to investigate the experience of performing a public service and policing during a period of considerable civil unrest under a 'law and order' administration.