United Nations Police

United Nations Police (UNPOL)
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Headquarters	International territory Manhattan New York City
Official languages	6 languages Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish
Membership	193 member states
Leaders
• Secretary-General	António Guterres
• Under-Secretary-General	Jan-Pierre Lacroix
• United Nations Police Adviser	Stefan Feller
Establishment
• UN Charter signed	26 June 1945
• Charter in force	24 October 1945
Website United Nations Police
Note that this map does not represent the view of its members or the UN concerning the legal status of any country, nor does it accurately reflect which areas' governments have UN representation.

The United Nations Police (UNPOL) is an integral part of the United Nations peace operations. Currently, about 12,500 UN Police officers from over 90 countries are deployed in 12 UN peacekeeping and 6 UN DPA-led Special Political Missions. The "mission of the UN Police is to enhance international peace and security by supporting Member States in conflict, post-conflict and other crisis situations to realize effective, efficient, representative, responsive and accountable police services that serve and protect the population".

Since the 1960s, the United Nations Member States have contributed police officers to United Nations Peacekeeping operations. The policing tasks of these operations were originally limited to monitoring, observing and reporting, but by the early 1990s, advising, mentoring and training of these personnel were adopted into the activities of the peace operations. UN Police, mandated by the United Nations Security Council build and support, or, where mandated, act as a substitute or partial substitute for, host-state police capacity to prevent and detect crime, protect life and property and maintain public order and safety in adherence to the rule of law and international human rights law.

Through Formed Police Units, Individual Police Officers, specialised teams and civilian experts, UN police pursue community-oriented and intelligence-led policing approaches to contribute to the protection of civilians and human rights; address, among others, sexual and gender-based violence, conflict-related sexual violence and serious and organized crime; and conduct investigations, special operations and electoral security (S/2016/952).

United Nations Police officers are mandated in UN missions in MINURSO, MINUSMA, UNMIK, UNFICYP, UNIFIL, UNAMID, MINUSTAH, UNMIL, UNOCI, MINUSCA, MONUSCO, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNSOM, UNSMIL, UNAMI, Mission in Colombia, UNIOGBIS, UNAMA and UNAMI.