On duty for peace
Publisher: United nationals police
Volume: 42 pages, pdf
Description:
In 1960 the United Nations deployed its first police officers. It was a small contingent, deployed under the auspices of the military in the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC). Between 1964 and 1989 peacekeeping was not a growth industry and the United Nations only deployed seven new peacekeeping operations. After 1989, however, the number and size of United Nations peacekeeping deployments grew exponentially as did the role and mandates of UN Police. The 1990s saw United Nations Police deployed to Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, El Salvador, Haiti, Mozambique, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and elsewhere. In 1999, the United Nations Security Council authorized two large police components: 4,500 UN Police were sent to the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK); 1,640 officers deployed to Timor-Leste. More recently, the largest police contingent to date was authorized for the African Union.