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UN DPKO – CoESPU Action Points

Since its inception, COESPU has worked in close cooperation with the UN Department of
Peacekeeping Operations (UN DPKO) in order to better assist UN efforts to support global
peace and stabilization, strengthening the quality of Formed Police Units (FPUs) training
through a standardized model worldwide. In this regard, respectively in March 2007 and
in June 2010, COESPU and UN DPKO signed an Aide-Mémoire and a formal
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), cementing their partnership. In particular, the
agreements are principally focused on the following areas of interest: development of new

doctrine, training and pre-deployment training, cooperation with the UN Standing Police
Capacity (SPC), Carabinieri participation in command and control of UN operations.
These important results are the outcomes of the UN trust in the CoESPU excellent
operational skills, derived from the well-known Carabinieri model, as they combine
military capacities with those of the police and assistance to the civilian population in the
aim of restoring security and legality. These are tasks which the Blue Helmets are more
and more frequently called to take on within the framework of the current

multidimensional Peace Operations in various crisis areas of the world. The UN DPKO-
CoESPU agreements include, but are not limited to, cooperation in the development of
official UN FPUs doctrine, lecturer exchanges, and coordination on training candidate

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