United Nations

UN Police

News on UN Police

UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein
el+salvador
El Salvador: UN panel voices concern at arbitrary detention, prison overcrowding
2 February 2012

A United Nations expert human rights panel has voiced concern about the right to security impinging on the right to be free from arbitrary detention in El Salvador, as well as extreme overcrowding in prisons and police facilities in the Central American nation.

 
Jorge Montt Glacier, Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile. Photo: NASA
climate+change
Threatened by climate change, glaciers now under attack from ice thieves – UN
2 February 2012

Criminal gangs are becoming a threat to the world’s glaciers, which are already receding as a result of climate change, the United Nations said today, citing a case in Chile where police are investigating the theft of some 5,000 kilograms of millennia-old ice from the Jorge Montt glacier.

 
Afghan National Police in training in Kabul. Photo: UNAMA/Eric Kanalstein
afghan
UN-backed survey shows improving public perception of Afghan police
1 February 2012

Public perception of the police in Afghanistan has improved over the past three years with the proportion of Afghans expressing personal respect for the country’s law enforcement rising to 81 per cent, an eight-point increase since last year, according to a United Nations-funded survey.

 
Special Representative Hilde Johnson (centre) on a visit to Pibor in Jonglei State, South Sudan. Photo: UNMISS/Isaac Gideon
south+sudan
South Sudan: UN envoy urges sending more Government forces to troubled state
23 January 2012

The top United Nations envoy in South Sudan stressed today that the best way to protect civilians in the strife-torn state of Jonglei is through military deterrence and urged the Government to deploy more troops and police in the area to patrol buffer zones between rival communities and defuse tensions.

 
Haitian National Police officer along with UNPOL and MINUSTAH checks the trunk of a car in Port-au-Prince. Photo: MINUSTAH
haiti
Haiti: UN opens probe into cases of alleged child sexual exploitation
23 January 2012

The United Nations announced today that it is investigating two cases of sexual exploitation of children allegedly committed by its police personnel in Haiti.

 
Haitian National Police officer along with UNPOL and MINUSTAH checks the trunk of a car in Port-au-Prince. Photo: MINUSTAH
haiti
UN human rights officials urge Haiti to probe alleged killings and acts of torture
27 December 2011

UN human rights officials in Haiti today urged the country’s authorities to properly investigate and prosecute police officers suspected of carrying out unlawful killings and acts of torture in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

 
Tiger cub
endangered
UN backed-convention praises Project Predator initiative to protect wild tigers
29 November 2011

The head of the United Nations-backed convention on endangered species praised today a new global initiative launched by the World Bank and the international police organization Interpol to protect the world’s last surviving wild tigers.

 
A standard cell at the UN Detention Unit in The Hague
icty
UN tribunal transfers convicted Bosnian Serb to Denmark to serve rest of jail term
11 November 2011

A former senior Bosnian Serb police officer convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a United Nations tribunal has been transferred to Denmark to serve the remainder of his 17-year prison sentence.

 
Special Representative Joseph Mutaboba
bissau
Guinea-Bissau must build on recent gains to advance peace – UN envoy
3 November 2011

While Guinea-Bissau has made important progress recently, including in police reform, it is vital that it press ahead with other challenges such as the launch of a pension fund for ex-military and security personnel and improving the judicial sector, a senior United Nations official said today.

 
MINUSTAH peacekeepers on patrol. Photo: MINUSTAH
haiti
Haiti: UN peacekeepers support police in efforts to curb crime
31 October 2011

United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti and local police officers have carried out a four-day joint operation to target criminals operating in two neighbourhoods of Port-au Prince, the country’s capital.

 

More information on UN News »