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UN FPU STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES

Many Police Officers
serving in United Nations
(UN) Peacekeeping
Operations are deployed
as Formed Police Units
(FPUs). Nowadays FPUs
represent a key element of
the UN global
Peacekeeping strategy
and, therefore, any related
UN doctrine innovation
deserves a special
attention by people
working on Peace
Operations matters.
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On 1 January 2017 the Medal Parade for the members of an UN FPU
new UN policy on

“Formed Police Units in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations” (Rev.2016.10) has been
published. This new policy, which is available on the webpage
http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/sites/police/documents/FPU_Policy-rev_2016.pdf, has been
realized by UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in collaboration with the
Department of Field Support (DFS). It introduces new operational recommendations, stressing the
critical issues that have
affected the reputation of
many recent UN
missions.
First of all, FPUs are re-
defined not only as
“cohesive” and “mobile”
units, but it is also
pointed out their specific
nature as “specialized”
units. Their composition
is consistently
reinforced: the total
number of officers grows
from 140 to 160 units,
not taking into account
Indonesian FPU member in South Sudan
the specialized
components, which are counted separately as additional forces. And their “core tasks” are also

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