UNPOL is part of the Global Focal Point for the Rule of Law arrangement, which allows the delivery of UN policing expertise in collaboration with other UN entities for effective conflict prevention, peacekeeping based on the rule of law and sustainable peacebuilding in both mission and non-mission settings worldwide.
In modern industrial societies, the demand for policing services frequently exceeds the current and foreseeable availability of public policing resources. Conversely, developing nations often suffer from an inability to provide a basic level of security for their citizens. Community Policing and Peacekeeping offers a fresh overview of the challenges of community policing in advanced societies and peacekeeping in weak nations, demonstrating how going beyond traditional models of police work can provide solutions in troubled communities.
Featuring contributions from world-class scholars, this volume emphasizes the importance of cultural and political sensitivities in police work. Offering comparative perspectives from the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, South Africa, and China, it explores the paradigm of community policing that involves consultation with community members, responsiveness to their security needs, collective problem-solving to identify the most appropriate means of meeting these needs, and mobilization of police services. Exploring the challenges and pitfalls of these collaborative efforts, the book examines how traditional models of police work have evolved to embrace the needs of communities.
Work Experience: A minimum of five years of active policing experience in a national police or other law enforcement agency at the strategic, operational and administrative levels, including at least three years of experience in anti-transnational crime and anti-organized crime policy-making and implementation is required. Experience in UN peacekeeping missions, other similar international organizations is required. Experience in the use of modern Internet-based research methodologies and sources is desirable.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Advanced university degree (Masters or equivalent) in law, police management, law enforcement, security studies, criminal justice, business or international relations/public administration, change management, or related area. A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Specialized training in the area of reforming, planning, community policing and training is highly desirable. Graduation from a certified Police Academy or other national or international Law Enforcement Training Institution is required.
Work Experience: A minimum of 7 years (9 years in absence of advanced degree) of relevant progressive responsible experience in law enforcement in a national or international law enforcement agency at the strategic, operational, and managerial level, strategic planning and policy development are required. Extensive practical experience in community policing in addition to one or few areas such as police administration, police or security sector reform, organizational and resource management, change management (particularly in law enforcement), is highly desirable. Previous UN or other international experience is an advantage.
Languages: For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of a second official UN language, preferably Arabic, is an advantage.
Rank: Superintendent of Police, Lieutenant Colonel, other equivalent or higher rank.
Work Experience: Aminimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in active national police service at the strategic, operational and administrative
levels with the rank of Superintendent or Lt. Colonel, other service equivalent or higher rank is required. At least three years of specific
experience in community-oriented policing, both policy-making and implementation is required. Peacekeeping or other international experience
in the UN or other international organizations is desirable.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Law, Criminology, Social Sciences, or another relevant field.
A first level university degree
with a combination of relevant academic qualifications and extensive experience in combating serious and organized crime may be acceptable in lieu of the advanced
University degree.
Graduation from a certified police academy or other similar law enforcement training institution is required.
Work Experience: A minimum of five
years of active policing experience in a national police or other law enforcement agency at the operational, and administrative levels, including at least two years of
experience in anti-transnational crime and anti-organized crime policy-making is required. In active national police service, with a current rank of at least Chief
Inspector or Major, equivalent or higher rank is required. Experience in UN peacekeeping missions, other similar international organizations is required. Experience in
the use of modern Internet-based research methodologies and sources is desirable.
Language: English and French are the most used working languages of the UN.
For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of other official UN languages, including French is highly desirable.
Mr. LACROIX, responding to questions, concurred with speakers who highlighted the growing importance of a police-type response in United Nations peacekeeping, which he attributed to emerging drivers of conflict, including the illegal exploitation of natural resources, and the need to address situations with a high density of population, including those involving urban areas, refugees and internally displaced persons. Moreover, the police force plays an increasing role in capacity building, notably with respect to strengthening the rule of law and justice. To questions about strengthening gender-sensitive policy in peacekeeping, he said this involves a continuing effort to increase the participation of women in United Nations police, and in making the environment more welcoming, including by improving facilities. He called on police-contributing countries to increase the number of female police officers they make available to peace operations and called for the broader application of innovative best practices by some Missions, including the use of local networks and female community liaison assistants.
Turning to the women, peace and security agenda, he said that steps are being taken to strengthen gender-responsive policing efforts to ensure the different security needs of women, men, girls and boys are considered, including through a robust network of gender advisers and police gender focal points. With support from Member States, the United Nations police has already achieved gender parity targets for 2025, with women currently comprising almost 1 in 5 United Nations police officers, including 31 per cent of individual police officers and 15 per cent of members of the formed police units, he said, pointing out that women now head five of nine police components in United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Women make unique and substantive contributions that improve peacekeeping operations. Female peacekeepers frequently can access populations and venues that are closed to men, thereby improving intelligence about potential security risks. They are also better able to screen women during searches, helping to close a security loophole that extremists increasingly exploit. In addition, the presence of female officers improves access to community members, thereby amplifying situational awareness and helping military commanders fulfill their mandates, including the protection of civilians.
Canada launched the Elsie Initiative to collaborate with and support the UN and the international community. The Initiative pursues transformational, sustainable and comprehensive change to advance the meaningful participation of uniformed women police and military peacekeepers, and to create peacekeeping missions that better reflect the populations they serve.
Abstract:UN peacekeepers face new conditions of conflict today, which call for expanded peacekeeping strategies. Among these new conditions is the increasing localization of violent conflict, especially among extra-state forces that are mobilized by ideological and religious passions. Responding to such challenges, the UN and its multinational partners attend increasingly to regional and local settings of intergroup tension and conflict. Among the consequences are greater emphasis on relations between UN peacekeeping and local police forces and on community policing. In this essay, we argue that these new peacekeeping directions are promising but lack one key dimension: attention to unique behavioral features of local, religion-on-religion conflict. Because such conflict plays an increasing role in location-specific tension and violence, it is increasingly important for peacekeepers to learn how to identify and analyze these unique features in real time and then reshape peacekeeping strategies accordingly. To illustrate how it is possible to do so, we introduce a detailed case study of successful community policing of religion-on-religion conflict: Muslim-Hindu intergroup conflict in Madhya Pradesh India.Keywords: United Nations peacekeeping; community policing; India; ethnic and inter-religious conflict
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