As society continues to evolve, the Poman manual will likely undergo further revisions and updates to reflect changing societal needs and advances in technology. Future directions for public order management may include:
One of the most legally aggressive sections of POMAN allowed officers to arrest individuals before they committed any public order offense, based solely on “reasonable suspicion of future breach of the peace.” This effectively created a category of Critics argued it gutted the presumption of innocence. public order manual poman 1971