UN Police

UN Police Adviser

In the early 1990s, the number of peacekeeping operations increased substantially and in the mid-1990s, a Police Adviser was appointed to advise the Department of Peacekeeping Operations on police-related matters. Today the UN Police Adviser is the Swedish Police Commissioner, Ms. Ann-Marie Orler.

Commissioner Ann-Marie Orler was appointed United Nations Police Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in March 2010. Before being promoted she served as the Deputy Police Adviser since May 2008. Prior to joining the United Nations Commissioner Orler was a Police Commissioner with the Swedish National Police for almost 20 years.

Apart from her extensive senior level policing experience, Commissioner Orler served from 2001 to 2003 at the Council of Europe as the Programme Manager for the “Police and Human Rights Beyond 2000” programme. She was the Secretary General of Amnesty International in Sweden for a brief period in 1998 and worked in the private sector as a Leadership Consultant specializing in leadership on a strategic level in 1999.

She has traveled extensively as part of her international policing career and has been a member of the Committee for prevention of Torture and degrading treatment of the Council of Europe between 2004 and 2008.

She studied journalism, is a graduate of the Swedish Police Training Academy and holds a Law degree from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. She is fluent in English and has some French and German language ability.