Security Council resolution 2382 (2017) [on including policing as an integral part of the mandates of UN peacekeeping operations and special missions]
Symbol: S/RES/2382 (2017)
Date: 2017-11-06
Status: adopted
Agenda: S/72 [18] PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
Subjects: UN. Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Standing Police Capacity|PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS|SPECIAL MISSIONS|INTERNATIONAL POLICE|PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS|GENDER MAINSTREAMING
Votes in favour: 15
Votes against: 0
Abstentions: 0
Voting record:
country: BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF)
vote: yes
country: CHINA
vote: yes
country: EGYPT
vote: yes
country: ETHIOPIA
vote: yes
country: FRANCE
vote: yes
country: ITALY
vote: yes
country: JAPAN
vote: yes
country: KAZAKHSTAN
vote: yes
country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
vote: yes
country: SENEGAL
vote: yes
country: SWEDEN
vote: yes
country: UKRAINE
vote: yes
country: UNITED KINGDOM
vote: yes
country: UNITED STATES
vote: yes
country: URUGUAY
vote: yes

               United Nations                                                                   S/RES/2382 (2017)
               Security Council                                                 Distr.: General
                                                                                6 November 2017




               Resolution 2382 (2017)
               Adopted by the Security Council at its 8086th meeting, on
               6 November 2017

                    The Security Council,
                     Recalling its primary responsibility under the Charter of the United Nations
               for the maintenance of international peace and security,
                     Recalling its resolution 2185 (2014) on United Nations Policing, as well as
               relevant resolutions such as resolutions 1265 (1999) and 1894 (2009) on the
               protection of civilians, 1325 (2000) and 2242 (2015) on women, peace and security,
               2086 (2013) and 2378 (2017) on peacekeeping operations, 2151 (2014) on security
               sector reform, 2171 (2014) on conflict prevention, 2282 (2016) on post-conflict
               peacebuilding, and statements of its President such as the statement of 21 February
               2014 (S/PRST/2014/5) on the rule of law, as well as the statement of 14 July 1997
               (S/PRST/1997/38), and the reports of the Secretary-General A/66/615 and
               S/2016/952 on United Nations Policing,
                     Taking note of the Report of the Secretary-General on United Nations Policing
               of November 2016 and its vision for United Nations Police Components ready to
               effectively address the challenges of the twenty-first century,
                     Stressing the primary responsibility of States for the prevention and resolution
               of conflicts, as well as for the protection of civilians and the important contribution
               that United Nations Policing in peacekeeping and special political missions can
               provide throughout the conflict cycle, where and as mandated, including through the
               protection of civilians, capacity-building and development efforts of host-State
               police services, and noting the relevance of its contribution when considering the
               broader reform of the peace and security pillar,
                     Affirming that lasting peace is not achieved nor sustained by military and
               technical engagements alone, but through political solutions and strongly convinced
               that such political solutions should guide the design and deploym ent of United
               Nations peacekeeping operations,
                     Reaffirming its commitment to upholding the purposes and principles of the
               Charter of the United Nations, including its commitment to and respect for the
               principles of political independence, sovereign equality and territorial integrity of
               all States in conducting all peacekeeping activities and the need for States to comply
               with their obligations under international law,




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                    Further reaffirming the basic principles of peacekeeping, including consent of
               the parties, impartiality, and non-use of force, except in self-defence and defence of
               the mandate, and recognizing that the mandate of each peacekeeping mission is
               specific to the need and situation of the country concerned, and that the Security
               Council expects full delivery of the mandates it authorizes,
                     Welcoming the role that UN Police Components can play in facilitating the
               transitions from peacekeeping to development and peacebuilding, and recognizing
               that improved performance of United Nations Policing can contribute to successful
               exit strategies of peacekeeping missions and will require continued transparent and
               accountable efforts to strengthen United Nations Police doctrine and its
               implementation and defining clearer standards for personnel, equipment, o perations,
               performance, and assistance to host-State police services, as well as increased
               training and capacity-building to prepare police contributing countries and ensure
               predictable deployment,
                     Stressing that the successful implementation of the mandates of peacekeeping
               operations and special political missions requires close cooperation and use of
               integrated planning mechanisms between the different elements of these missions,
               including between police, military and civilian components, under the overa ll
               leadership of the Head of Mission,
                     Noting the important role United Nations Policing can play, where mandated,
               in strengthening the rule of law and security sector reform and reaffirming the lead
               role of national authorities in progressing the reform of police and other law
               enforcement agencies as part of wider rule of law and security sector reform efforts,
               including in dedicating national resources towards national police and other law
               enforcement institutions, and monitoring the impact of police reform, and
               recognizing that the political leadership and political will of national authorities are
               critical in this regard and success necessitates national ownership,
                     Highlighting the important role that United Nations Police Components can
               play in building the capacity of host-State policing and other law enforcement
               institutions, as mandated, in particular through building principles of community
               oriented policing and in addressing organized crime, particularly through support in
               the areas of border, immigration and maritime security and crime prevention,
               response and investigation, where mandated,
                     Having considered that transnational organized crime undermines stability and
               further considering that transnational organized crime can benefit internation al
               terrorism, which may require strengthening or rebuilding of criminal justice systems
               to address relevant threats,
                     Recalling the work conducted by the Security Council Working Group on
               Peacekeeping Operations, the Fourth and Fifth Committees of the Gen eral Assembly
               and the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, which have provided
               guidance to the Secretariat on United Nations policing including on a standardized
               approach to United Nations Policing and compliance thereto, as well as support to
               the United Nations Secretariat to address capacity and capability gaps, where they
               exist, thereby improving the performance of United Nations Policing,
                     Noting the increasing scope and reliance on police abilities in United Nations
               operations and welcoming ongoing efforts to attain specialized capacities,
               capabilities and technologies for United Nations Police Components, further noting
               the Policy for Formed Police Units in United Nations Peacekeeping and
               encouraging Member States to contribute well-trained and appropriately vetted men
               and women police personnel with appropriate language skills for formed police
               units (FPUs) with the full complement of agreed contingent -owned equipment,


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           specialized police teams (SPTs) and individual police officers, as well as civilian
           experts, to effectively implement mandated tasks and facilitate the conditions for
           transitions and exits,
                Noting that host-State policing institutions should be the primary link between
           the government, individuals and communities on security is sues, reiterating that
           professional, effective, accountable, and accessible law enforcement, corrections,
           and judicial institutions are necessary to lay the foundation for sustainable peace
           and national development, and further noting that failure to addre ss operational and
           accountability deficits in police institutions can undermine the positive gains made,
           and thus risks a relapse into conflict,
                 Recognizing the indispensable role of women in United Nations peacekeeping
           and special political missions, including the critical role that women play in all
           peace and security efforts, including by providing diverse perspectives which can
           assist in building trust with local communities and stressing the need to increase
           their participation and leadership in decision-making in host-States with regard to
           policing and the rule of law,
                 Welcoming the efforts to incentivize greater numbers of women in military and
           police deployed and appointed to senior positions in United Nations peacekeeping
           operations, as both IPOs and as part of SPTs and FPUs, and efforts to review the
           obstacles preventing women’s recruitment and professional advancement; taking
           note in this regard of the Secretary-General’s System-wide Strategy on Gender
           Parity which tasks relevant United Nations entities, in consultation with Police -
           Contributing countries, to develop a separate, dedicated strategy on this matter,
                 Reaffirming its determination to pursue more prioritization when evaluating,
           mandating and reviewing United Nations peacekeeping operations, including
           through strengthening Triangular consultations with Troop and Pol ice-Contributing
           Countries and the Secretariat, strengthening existing formal mechanisms, and
           underlining the shared responsibility for meaningful, inclusive, active and dynamic
           consultations, as well as enhancing its dialogue with host countries, with the aim of
           fully and successfully implementing peacekeeping mandates,
                 Noting with appreciation the improved cooperation between the United
           Nations, international, regional and subregional organizations and initiatives,
           including through training, sharing of experience, exchange of information,
           thematic expertise and operational readiness as appropriate, and the establishment
           by the United Nations Police Components of a serious and organized crime focal
           point network, and further noting that these efforts can strengthen host-State police
           and other law enforcement agencies’ capacities and capabilities to counter
           transnational threats,
                 1.   Stresses that the primacy of political solutions should be the hallmark of
           the approach of the United Nations to the resolution of conflict and resolves to
           include, on a case by case basis, policing as an integral part of the mandates and
           decision-making structures of United Nations peacekeeping operations and special
           political missions, taking into account the need for consistent integration of police
           expertise within the planning of such missions, and to give clear, credible,
           achievable, appropriately resourced mandates for policing -related activities, and
           emphasizes in this context the need to ensure a United Nations system -wide
           approach to the rule of law;
                 2.   Underscores the critical importance of improving accountability,
           transparency, efficiency and effectiveness in the performance of United Nations
           peacekeeping operations and special political missions and calls on the Secretariat
           to continue efforts to strengthen doctrine and define clear standards for personnel,

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               equipment, operations, performance, and assistance to host nation police forces for
               effective performance of United Nations Police in missions, as well as for preparing
               Police-Contributing Countries for deployment, and requests the United Nations’
               Secretariat to assist Member States’ training activities by providing timely and
               complete information regarding the training needs of Police -Contributing Countries
               and those with the capacity to deliver such training, to ensure coherence and
               identify where capability gaps remain, thereby enhancing triangular cooperation;
                     3.    Reaffirms its ongoing efforts to review peacekeeping operations to ensure
               maximum effectiveness and efficiency on the ground, and to deepen these efforts in
               partnership with Police Contributing Countries, and requests the Secretary -General
               to ensure data streams related to the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations,
               including peacekeeping performance data, to include police, are centralized to
               improve analytics and evaluation of mission operations, based on clear and well
               identified benchmarks;
                    4.    Resolves to continue to promote and support the finalization and
               operationalization of the Strategic Guidance Framework for International Police
               Peacekeeping, to conduct targeted recruitment based on identified field needs and
               develop a measurable accountability framework for the implementation of
               mandates, and requests the Secretary-General to consider undertaking the following
               to ensure the timely completion of country-specific mandates and improve
               performance:
                     (a) Strengthen the collaboration of United Nations Policing with the
               Peacekeeping Strategic Force Generation and Capability Planning Cell, so t hat
               police and military requirements are coordinated, force generation occurs in concert
               and performance data is centralized to improve performance based decision -making;
                     (b) Provide additional guidance for relevant officials, including for Special
               Representatives of the Secretary-General and Special Envoys, and assist relevant
               senior United Nations management to understand how to deliver mandated police -
               related tasks;
                     (c) Highlight in his regular reports to the Security Council concerning
               specific United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions mandated by
               the Security Council, updates on progress in terms of gender-responsive police
               reform and protection activities, where mandated, including efforts to make national
               police services more accessible and responsive to women, in order to improve
               Security Council oversight of police reform and protection of civilians activities in
               accordance with resolutions 2122 (2013) and 2242 (2015);
                     5.   Recognizes the role of United Nations Policing in contributing, as
               appropriate, to the United Nations’ efforts to prevent conflicts through, inter alia, as
               mandated, protection of civilians, and assisting host-States with relevant capacitybuilding and calls on the Secretary-General to make sure that planning of United
               Nations peacekeeping and special political missions with police mandates are based
               on a thorough analysis of the context, capacities and needs of host -States;
                     6.    Reaffirms that States bear the primary responsibility for protection of
               civilians and recognizes the important role that United Nations Police Components
               can play, where and as mandated, in the protection of civilians, including in
               preventing and addressing sexual and gender based violence, an d, where applicable,
               conflict-related sexual violence and violations and abuses against children in the
               context of conflict and post-conflict situations, including, where appropriate,
               supporting the efforts of host-authorities to build and reform policing and law
               enforcement institutions so they are able to sustainably and consistently protect
               civilians, and in this regard:


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                (a) Urges Police-Contributing Countries to ensure that all deployed IPOs,
           FPUs and SPTs have undergone comprehensive training, includi ng specific training
           on protection of civilians, sexual and gender based violence, as well as child
           protection, as a key part of their predeployment training, to successfully fulfil their
           mandates;
                (b) Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that United Nations Police
           Components support protection of civilians activities as part of the whole of mission
           approach in missions with protection of civilians mandates;
                 (c) Reiterates that the protection of children in armed conflict should be an
           important aspect of any comprehensive strategy to resolve conflict and build peace
           and of capacity-building efforts in support of host-State police, law enforcement
           agencies and, where appropriate, juvenile justice systems; underscoring in this
           regard the importance of specialized predeployment and in-mission training on
           mission-specific child protection and on appropriate comprehensive child -sensitive
           prevention and protection responses, as well as monitoring and reporting on
           violations and abuses committed against children, and stressing the importance of
           enhancing coordination between Police Components and Child Protection Advisers
           as well as Gender and Women Protection Advisers as outlined in all relevant United
           Nations Security Council resolutions;
                 7.    Requests the Secretary-General to continue and strengthen efforts to
           enhance measures in United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions
           against all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations personnel and
           on support to victims in cooperation with the Victims’ Rights Advocate, urges all
           Police-Contributing Countries to ensure that all police personnel to be deployed are
           vetted for previous criminal acts of sexual exploitation and abuse and to deliver
           robust predeployment training to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse, and recalls
           the primary responsibility of Troop-Contributing Countries to investigate allegations
           of sexual exploitation and abuse by their personnel and of Troop - and Police-Contributing Countries to hold accountable, including through prosecution, where
           appropriate, their personnel for acts of sexual exploitation and abuse, taking into
           account due process;
                 8.  Reaffirms the importance of national ownership and leadership in
           peacebuilding, whereby the responsibility for sustaining peace is broadly shared by
           the Government and all other national stakeholders, and recognizes that United
           Nations Police Components, including IPOs, FPOs and SPTs can contribute to
           building and sustaining peace by supporting host-State police and other law
           enforcement services, as mandated;
                9.    Recalls in this regard the importance of United Nations Policing-related
           support to non-United Nations security forces adhering to the Human Rights Due
           Diligence Policy;
                10.   Recognizes the importance of United Nations Policing by:
                (a) Reaffirming its commitment to continue to convene the annual briefing
           of Heads of United Nations Police Components established in resolution 2185
           (2014);
                (b) Highlighting, where appropriate, United Nations Policing aspects in
           deliberations of the Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping;
                 (c) Encouraging the inclusion of United Nations Policing issues in briefings
           of the Secretary-General’s Special Representatives and Special Envoys and in the
           reports of the Secretary-General, where appropriate;



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                     11. Stresses the importance of national ownership and commitment in
               policing and that, where appropriate, a thorough assessment of national capacity
               gaps in the area of police activities should inform United Nations Policing capacitybuilding activities and police development, including the composition of United
               Nations Police Components, and during planning, recruitment, the prov ision of
               guidance, and training;
                    12. Welcomes the efforts of Member States and the Secretariat to strengthen
               the strategic generation of both female and male police personnel with the
               appropriate expertise and language skills, in order to convey information and
               provide technical assistance in the most accessible manner to the desired audience,
               including through participation in the United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit and
               engagement in the Peacekeeping Capabilities Readiness System for Rapid
               Deployment, and urges Police-Contributing Countries to contribute further:
                    (a) Well-trained,    equipped     and   performing   FPUs,    including   rapidly
               deployable FPUs;
                    (b)   Highly qualified IPOs and civilian experts with specialized skill sets;
                    (c)   SPTs with proper support;
                     (d) A substantial increase in numbers of female police across the different
               roles, with the aim of an overall doubling by 2020, and increasing representation in
               leadership positions, in line with UNSCR 2242 (2015) and the original United
               Nations Global Goal to reach 20 per cent female officers by 2014;
                     (e) Police units that have completed predeployment training, with the
               support of the Secretariat, as appropriate, within the areas of their respective
               responsibilities, so that relevant mechanisms are in place to evaluate Member
               States’ predeployment readiness;
                     13. Reiterates the importance of gender analysis in all police activities and
               mission phases and the role of Police Gender Advisers and its request to the
               Secretary-General to enhance coordination between Police Components and Child
               Protection Advisers as well as Gender and Women Protection Advisers, calls upon
               the United Nations Secretariat to work closely with Member States and UN -Women
               to overcome systemic challenges regarding the eligibility of female police for
               United Nations missions such as entry requirements, including by instituting special
               measures, or supporting women police associations, and encourages Member States
               to provide updates annually on these efforts, and share good practices in this regard;
                     14. Notes the continued efforts of the Secretary-General to enhance
               performance in the peace and security pillar and encourages the Secretariat to assess
               issues concerning the functions, structure and capacity of the Police Division in
               consultation with Member States;
                     15. Welcomes the work of the Police Division Standing Police Capacity
               (SPC) in providing a rapid, coherent, effective and responsive start -up and
               assistance capability for the Police Components of United Nations peacekeeping
               and special political missions as well as support to other United Nations entities
               through the Global Focal Point for Police, Justice and Corrections arrangement, and
               requests the Secretary-General to ensure the work of the SPC is better integrated
               into efforts of United Nations peacekeeping operations to ensure coordination and
               information sharing and that the SPC is used to maximum effect;
                    16. Requests the Secretary-General to provide a report by the end of 2018,
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                (a) Implications for the delivery of policing mandates stemming from any
           changes to the United Nations Secretariat’s Peace and Security Architecture;
                (b) Strengthening United Nations Policing’s            operational   and   policy
           coherence within the United Nations system;
                (c) Improving United Nations capability, accountability and transparency on
           United Nations Policing;
                (d)   Planning for strategic police generation gaps and key skill sets;
                (e) Ensuring coherence of relevant United Nations Policing initiatives, in
           order to improve mission transitions and timely exits;
                (f) Strengthening partnerships between the United Nations and international,
           regional and subregional organizations in accordance with Chapter VIII of the
           United Nations Charter, in the areas of policing.




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