Public Order Policing (PDF)

Colonel Bernd Bürger joined the Bavarian State Police, Germany, in 1997 and has managed assemblies and large events since 2000. He was responsible for managing camps and assemblies at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen G7 summits in 2015 and 2022. Between 2015 and 2020, he was the commanding officer of the Dachau special public order unit (evidence gathering and arrest unit) where he was also deployed "on the front line" at the Hamburg G20 summit. He has served as head of the Police Operations Department at the Institute of Further Education of the Bavarian Police since 2020. In addition to his practical experience, he is a renowned public order scholar, lecturing in various German and European states. He also was a speaker at the 2018 International Association of Chiefs of Police Meeting and 2019 the Public Order Workshop of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, together with Tamara Herold and Ryan Lee. He holds a master's degree in criminology and police science from the Ruhr University Bochum (ECTS A), Germany, a master's degree in Public Administration - Police Management (ECTS A) as well as a PhD in Public Administration from the German Police University.



Tamara D. Herold currently serves as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. National Institute of Justice and is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. She received her Ph.D. with an emphasis in Crime Prevention from the University of Cincinnati, USA. She uses the crime science perspective to study the criminological impact of the design and management of places, as well as crowd and neighborhood dynamics associated with violence. Her publications translate theory and research evidence into practice and policy. Her co-edited book (with Johannes Knutsson), Preventing Crowd Violence, has been translated into foreign languages to guide international police practice. Herold researches, develops, and delivers police and security crowd management training across the world.