Abstract
AbstractThe 1990s saw a wave of peacekeeping policing which is explored in this chapter through UK international policing case studies. The examples are drawn from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo exploring the deployment of Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)/Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), and Ministry of Defence (MDP) police cohorts and, demonstrating the need for securitized approaches to peacekeeping, armed capability, and executive authority policing and a police-military co-operation. The chapter outlines the growing international capability of the RUC (later the PSNI) and the MDP within post-conflict scenarios, where the semi-military facets of the UK policing brand were of greatest value internationally. It provides a case study of the deployment of UK police to East Timor and the challenges faced by ‘civil’ police within hostile environments, as well as the requests for civil/English approaches to bilateral police reform and state building programmes in Sierra Leone, demonstrating the historical continuity of a ‘pick-and-mix approach’ within the UK policing brand.
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