ABSTRACT
The crowd is an entity which resembles the human body, consisting of two basic parts; the body and the spirit. The components which determine crowd and police relations are of two kinds: remote and immediate. The research will focus on the immediate components of police-crowd interaction rather than examining the role and influence of remote components. Crowd participants are not merely a collection of human beings. The crowd can be examined in terms of ‘composition’, which refers to the make-up of its participants, and ‘motivation’ and ‘emotions’, which refers to the behaviour of the participants and crowd as a whole under the influence of psychological metaphors. In 1985, D. Miller in his book, Introduction to Collective Behaviour, provides the following quotation from R. H. Turner and L. M. Killian, which classifies crowd participants under five categories in terms of individual motives.
