Objectives-based Police Operations Typology

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Objectives-based Police Operations Typology

• Thaddeus Lin
• Patrick Law

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Why Categorise?

• Categorising according to important determinants
  
• Enables identification of critical differences
  between operations.
• Provide decision-makers with guidance in the
  establishment of expectations. E.g. Tasks,
  inputs, outputs and outcomes.
• Enables valid comparison between operations.
  (Comparing apples with apples.)
• This typology aims to contribute to the
  development of more effective performance
  measurements.

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Existing Typologies
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Objectives-based Typology

• Traditional Monitoring
• Capacity Building
• Training and Mentoring
• Advising and Supporting
• Multidimensional Policing
• Executive Policing

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Objectives-based Typology

• Traditional Monitoring - To monitor and observe
  the implementation of police reform and/or
  relevant aspects of a peace agreement.
• Goals
• Supervising the performance, and ensuring
• the impartiality, of local police forces
• Verifying the integrity of critical processes
• such as disarmament or democratic elections
• Monitor belligerents compliance with peace
• / ceasefire agreements.
• Examples
• UNTAG (Namibia) UNFICYP (Cyprus)
• ONUSAL (El Salvador)

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Objectives-based Typology

• Capacity Building To develop or modify
• the knowledge, skills and character traits of
  police officers and
• support staff through a planned and systematic
  learning
• experience, thereby achieving effectiveness in a
  wide rage of
• activities.
• Advising and Supporting
• Training and Mentoring

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Objectives-based Typology

• Advising and Supporting - To provide advice and
• support to improve the professionalism and
  increase the
• capacity of local police service.
• Goals
• To provide technical assistance and strategic
  support to increase the capacity and widen the
  capabilities of the local police service.
• To provide support for ongoing investigations
  and/or provide threat/intelligence assessments.
• Examples
• UNOMSIL (Sierra Leone) Australian Federal
• Police Cambodia AFP - Vanuatu Police
• Force Capacity Building Project

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Objectives-based Typology

• Training and Mentoring - To directly provide
  training
• and mentoring to improve the professionalism and
  increase the
• capacity of local police service.
• Goals
• To reform behaviour of domestic police and
  increase the skills
• standards and specialists capacity of the
  service through the
• provision of training and mentoring.
• Examples
• MIPONUH (Haiti) MINURCA (Central African
  Republic)
• AFP UNMIS (SUDAN) AFP Jordan

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Objectives-based Typology

• Multidimensional Policing Operations To assist
  the host government in all policing functions
  necessary to the restoration and maintenance of
  the rule of law, public safety and order.
• Goals
• To provide support to weak an ineffective
  indigenous law
• enforcement institutions in order to create and
  maintain a
• security environment conducive to the
  implementation of
• comprehensive restructuring and retraining
  program.
• Examples
• UNMIBH (Bosnia and Herzegovina) UNMIH (Haiti)
  MONUC (DRC)
• AFP - RAMSI

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Objectives-based Typology

• Executive Policing Operations - To provide
  interim law
• enforcement services along the entire ambit of
  activities, through the authority
• conferred by the international administration,
  while the development of a
• professional local police service, generally from
  scratch, is undertaken.
• Goals Activities
• Full responsibility for the maintenance of law
  and order.
• (Re)build the entire local law enforcement
  apparatus.
• Fundamental difference from
• Multidimensional Policing
• Executive Policing Operations are authorised, and
  
• have their powers conferred, by an international
• administration, or body such as the U.N.
• Examples

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CONCLUSION

• A more nuanced understanding of offshore policing
  operations.
• More accurate disaggregation of outputs and
  outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of a more precise
  and sophisticated performance measurement
  framework.