UN Police Roles and Responsibilities

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UN Police Roles and Responsibilities
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Overview

• Introduction
• Military and Police Roles
• Pre-Mission Assessment

• Pre-Deployment Planning
• Role of UN Police in DDR
• Advice
• Coordination
• Monitoring
• Promoting Public Confidence
• Police Reform and Restructuring

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Introduction

• Relevance of policing to DDR is two-pronged and
  focus on
• Crime control, law and order and security
  perspectives
• Police reform / restructuring development in
  post-conflict period
• At present, the issue of policing is only raised
  in discussions of DDR when considering the
  possibility of reintegrating combatants into the
  police service.

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Military and Police Roles

• Dynamics of the transition from military to
  police security during the post-conflict period
  has significant implications for
• DDR exit strategy
• Transformation from militarized society to
  civilian

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Pre-Mission Assessment

• Prospect of UN engagement within peacekeeping
  context becomes evident
• Multi-agency technical team visits area to
  strategize concept of operations
• Planning Section within Police Division, examines
  structure of police service

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Pre-Deployment Planning

• Planning officer from Police Division is fully
  involved in the Integrated Mission Planning
  Process
• Deployment will be in phases responding to
  immediate priorities of the prevailing situation

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Role of UN Police in DDR

• Advice
• Coordination
• Monitoring
• Promoting Public Confidence
• Police Reform and Restructuring

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• ADVICE
• UN Police - advising functions in missions three
  levels
• Strategic level
• Operational or middle management levels
• Service delivery level

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• COORDINATION
• Identify local concerns in coordination
• site selection for the demobilization camps
• in the area of the safety and security of
  demobilization camps
• in the area of the operational engagement of
  formed police units in crowd control and public
  order problems in the DDR camps
• security arrangements that assure combatants
  trying to return to normal civilian life
• with international and regional police agencies
  for information sharing and operational planning
  in regard to arms trafficking, etc

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• MONITORING
• Coupled with mentoring and capacity-building
  functions to ensure that local police are given
  new skills
• Core task of the UN Police is the monitoring of
• Local law enforcement officers regarding their
  compliance to professional standards of policing
• Any return to military-style activities
• Trends of crime, criminality and proliferations
  of arms
• Activities of local militia commanders make them
  fully responsible for complying with the peace
  agreement

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• PROMOTING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
• Open access to all police services anytime
• Highly visible police presence
• Aggressive public information campaigns
• Proactively enhancing the creation of public
  forums and civil society engagements so that
  police actions are scrutinized and evaluated
  regularly
• Representation of minority groups and balanced
  ethnic composition in the police service
• Promotion of gender balance in the police force
  and gender mainstreaming in all police work
• SALW initiatives

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• PROMOTING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE (cont.)
• Fundamental Principles of CommunityBased
  Policing
• Policing by consent, not coercion
• Police are part of the community
• Police community find out about communities
  needs
• Police, public and other agencies work together
  in partnership

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• PROMOTING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE (cont.)
• Fundamental Principles of CommunityBased
  Policing
• Business of policing is tailored to meet
  community needs
• Community is empowered to root out the genesis of
  its social and security problems
• Diversity in the police force reflects diversity
  in the community and addresses the needs of
  different social actors

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• POLICE REFORM RECONSTRUCTING
• Imperative for the re-establishment of peace and
  stability in a post conflict state
• Based on principles of democratic policing, which
  derive from principles of representation,
  responsiveness and accountability
• Long process requires sustained support from the
  international community

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POLICE REFORM RECONSTRUCTING (cont.)
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• POLICE REFORM RECONSTRUCTING (cont.)
• Vetting Process
• Registration
• Screening
• Certification

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• POLICE REFORM RECONSTRUCTING (cont.)
• Training
• Standard harmonization training
• Supervisory and middle management training
• Special Skills training

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• POLICE REFORM RECONSTRUCTING (cont.)
• Issues of Concern
• Political will
• Sustained and coordinated international support
• Comprehensive initiatives

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Conclusion

• There are many areas of UN Police work that
  impact directly on the DDR process and the DDR
  process also impacts directly on the work of the
  UN Police