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Shahkar

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  1. “The last point that was raised in the discussion is the sustainability of whatever efforts we make when we leave. We are thinking about it and will seek the support of the Council and Member States to work out how we can remain sustainable once we leave. It will mean that we have to leave some police capacity even when missions end, be they peacekeeping or political missions.”

    2023-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9475 (2023) · source

  2. “The point was also raised about early engagement by United Nations police with regard to conflict situations. We might avoid some conflicts if United Nations police were involved earlier in potential trouble spots that are likely to fall into conflict. Sometimes we receive requests from our regional coordinators and the United Nations Development Programme, and we also provide support through United Nations police deployments. Our two Police Commissioners touched upon the issue of capacity-building. And as Ms. Fossen pointed out, the problem is budgeting. The issue in capacity- building is, as we say in policing, that no capacity- building is possible without two things — political will and money. Policing is an expensive business. We therefore seek the support of the Council in budgeting, where police reform is expected to take place.”

    2023-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9475 (2023) · source

  3. “Mr. Shahkar: First of all, I thank you, Mr. President, for the Council’s great support and the time it dedicates to these discussions. I will briefly touch on a few points that were raised. The first one is the role of United Nations police in transitions, which is critically important when we end and withdraw, and institutions are still fragile. We should be expecting a longer United Nations police presence in some capacity to keep things rolling for sustainable programmes. The second point relates to organized crime, which Ms. Landgren touched upon. It has global connotations. It is not restricted, like a peacekeeping mission, to one area, but it affects all areas. We are therefore focusing on a very coherent response through the United Nations inter-agency task force on policing and through cooperation with regional police set-ups.”

    2023-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9475 (2023) · source

  4. “If we are to further the digital transformation of peacekeeping, we will require social-media monitoring and analysis tools for use as early-warning mechanisms, live high- resolution video-feed capabilities and personnel who are proficient in data analytics and management, cybercrime investigations and cybersecurity. I would like to conclude by reiterating that the sustained leadership and continued political engagement of Member States are indispensable to the success of the United Nations policing.”

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  5. “We have a critical need for individual police officers with expertise in countering organized crime — including environmental crime — terrorism, forensics, crime analysis, community- oriented policing, sexual and gender-based violence, gender mainstreaming and improvised-explosive-device risk awareness and mitigation. For formed police units, we require francophone and mixed-gender units that are available for rapid deployment and equipped with state-of-the-art capabilities, including special weapons and tactics, rapid reaction, canine and riverine elements. In addition, we seek police teams specializing in community- oriented policing, environmental crimes, public-order management, border policing and forensics.”

    2023-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9475 (2023) · source

  6. “Throughout this year, we have also continued to enhance our United Nations police performance regime, based on the Strategic Guidance Framework. We have made significant strides in operationalizing the United Nations Police Training Architecture Programme and hope to reduce the gap between policy and practice through the now mandatory Strategic Guidance Framework online course. Furthermore, our regular performance assessment and evaluation team helps us identify and certify the evolving capabilities and capacities required for deployment in specific mission contexts, as well as verifying the in-mission performance of units and individual police officers. To help us achieve our goals, we would appreciate Council members’ further support.”

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  7. “Building on General Assembly resolution 77/241, which recognized the work of the Task Force, we launched a communications campaign to highlight the positive multiplier effect of United Nations policing, while the Task Force’s joint efforts resulted in the development of a manual on non-coercive investigative techniques, capping a year-long effort to establish international norms on human-rights-compliant policing and investigations. At Headquarters, we continue to strengthen trilateral collaboration, including through the biennial United Nations Chiefs of Police summit. Efforts are under way for a fourth summit, which will be convened in 2024 and will contribute to triangular cooperation between the Security Council, police-contributing countries and the Secretariat on all policing matters.”

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  8. “This rapidly deployable operational asset also regularly assessed the existing capacities and capabilities of missions and host-State law-enforcement agencies, with a view to further improving the way United Nations police work in order to enhance their pivotal role within United Nations peacekeeping and beyond. The United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Policing, which is co-chaired by the Department of Peace Operations and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, made progress in enhancing policy coherence and dialogue.”

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  9. “Building on its mandate to support wholesale reform efforts in several settings, United Nations police continued to advocate for the inclusion of women in police-reform stakeholder arrangements, ensuring their representation and therefore their ability to take decisions on police-reform steering boards, and to promulgate policies on gender equality in the various police services and provide gender-responsive policing training, as established in the Strategic Guidance Framework for International Policing. The Standing Police Capacity sustained and reaffirmed the increased relevance of United Nations policing in helping to prevent conflict and respond to emerging policing requirements for our current peace operations where mandated.”

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  10. “To support the extension of State authority in the Central African Republic, the United Nations police notably deployed 14 individual police officers to Sam Ouandja and Mobaye in February and April respectively, extending its footprint and allowing it to adjust its layout in coordination with the force of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and other sections to improve early-warning systems.”

    2023-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9475 (2023) · source

  11. “Within the framework of implementing the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali and the central stabilization strategy, UNPOL provided support to the Malian security forces in their gradual redeployment to the central and northern regions of the country. That support included projects aimed at constructing or rehabilitating facilities and supplying equipment and fuel for specific civil protection operations. As part of the logistical support, United Nations police supported the deployment of 57 Malian police officers to Ménaka from Gao.”

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  12. “For example, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo police component supported capacity-building efforts of the Congolese National Police, including on the protection of civilians, the identification and investigation of incidents of sexual and gender-based violence and training on interviewing and investigation skills. In Mali, despite the difficult political and security context, the United Nations police continued its activities in accordance with resolution 2640 (2022) until 1 July, before the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali ended.”

    2023-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9475 (2023) · source

  13. “We would also welcome increased support from police-contributing countries, including through the timely deployment of capacities, without caveats, enhanced welfare arrangements in collaboration with the Secretariat and, importantly, the endorsement of the Fifth Committee to match mandated policing tasks with adequate resources. With respect to accomplishments, United Nations police have continued to improve the lives of the people we serve.”

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  14. “Let me stress that successful police capacity- building and development efforts are undermined and, in fact, impossible, when host-State consent is lacking or withdrawn. According to the discussions of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, there is also a need to align contingent-owned equipment with the new statement-of-unit requirements, which reflect changing operational realities on the ground, such as the increased threat from improvised explosive devices, especially in settings such as that in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

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  15. “Mr. Shahkar: I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I am pleased to join Under- Secretary-General Lacroix, the police commissioners from our peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic and South Sudan and Ms. Karin Landgren, the Executive Director of Security Council Report. Allow me to begin by highlighting some key challenges facing the United Nations Police (UNPOL) and reflecting on our accomplishments in contributing to the advancement of the Action for Peacekeeping initiative and the New Agenda for Peace. When it comes to challenges, our work continues to be affected by varying relationships and levels of trust between host-State government institutions and missions.”

    2023-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9475 (2023) · source