United Nations Police
part of UN peace operations
The United Nations Police (UNPOL) is an integral part of the United Nations peace operations. Currently, about 11,530 UN Police officers from over 90 countries are deployed in 11 UN peacekeeping operations and 6 Special Political Missions. The "mission of the UN Police is to enhance international peace and security by supporting Member States in conflict, post-conflict and other crisis situations to realise effective, efficient, representative, responsive and accountable police services that serve and protect the population".
Summary
Since the 1960s, the United Nations Member States have contributed police officers to United Nations Peacekeeping operations. The policing tasks of these operations were originally limited to monitoring, observing and reporting, but by the early 1990s, advising, mentoring and training of these personnel were adopted into the activities of the peace operations. The UN Police, authorised by the United Nations Security Council according to the rule of law and international human rights, are to maintain public order, protect life and property as a full or partial substitute for the host nation's police force as observers only.
The UN police consist of Formed Police Units (FPU), individual police officers (IPO), specialised teams and civilian experts, to pursue community-oriented and intelligence-led policing. They aim to protect civilians and their human rights. As part of this they focus on sexual and gender based violence, organised crime, and electoral security, amongst others.
United Nations police provide comprehensive and cohesive protective and mentoring services in 18 peace keeping missions globally from Haiti in Central America (MINUSTAH), to African nations of, Western Sahara (MINURSO), Mali (MINUSMA), Darfur (UNAMID), Liberia (UNMIL), Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), Abyei (UNISFA), South Sudan (UNMISS), Libya (UNSMIL), Guinea -Bissau (UNIOGBIS), in Asia Afghanistan (UNAMA) Iraq (UNAMI), Lebanon (UNIFIL) and in Europe Kosovo (UNMIK) and Cyprus (UNFICYP).
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