A Brief History of International Policing

Abstract

The claim that we are witnessing an era of new international policing is underpinned by the fact that operational demands for policing in peace operations have increased substantially through the Cold War and post-Cold War years, and this in turn has necessitated a concomitant increase in the number of police professionals being deployed to peace operations to carry out those policing tasks. In addition to this there has been an ongoing deepening and broadening of just what those ‘policing tasks’ for these police professionals actually are — in particular, there has been a significant move towards executive policing and deeper police reform efforts. The present chapter highlights the development of the core themes of the new international policing through a brief history of international policing from the Cold War through to the end of the 1990s.KeywordsPolice ForceInternational PoliceUnited Nations Security CouncilPeace OperationSecurity Sector ReformThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.