
UN Police (UNPOL)
In line with the vision of the United Nations Secretary-General, the Police Division is working towards a “people-centred, modern, agile, mobile and flexible, specialized, rights-based and norm-driven” UN police. The mission of UN police is to enhance international peace and security by supporting Member States in conflict, post-conflict and other crisis situations to realize effective, efficient, representative, responsive and accountable police services that serve and protect the population. To that end, 11,689 United Nations police from 120 countries build and support, or, where mandated, act as a substitute or partial substitute for, host-State police capacity to prevent and detect crime, protect life and property and maintain public order and safety in adherence to the rule of law and international human rights law S/RES/2185 (2014) & S/RES/2382 (2017). Through formed police units, individual police officers, specialised teams and civilian experts, they pursue community-oriented and intelligence-led policing approaches to contribute to the protection of civilians and human rights; address, among other things, sexual and gender-based violence, conflict-related sexual violence and serious and organized crime; and conduct investigations, special operations and electoral security (S/2016/952).
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