Introduction

Abstract

Demands for civilian policing tasks to be carried out in peace operations have increased dramatically in recent years.2 This has resulted in a concomitant increase in the number of police professionals being deployed to peace operations to carry out those policing tasks, as well as an increase in the range of international, regional, national and private sector actors providing those police professionals. At the same time, there has been an ongoing deepening and broadening of just what those ‘policing tasks’ can potentially be, to the point where we now see executive in-line policing roles and deeper police reform efforts as normal or typical functions for international police. These combined developments of: an increased role for police in peace operations, rising police numbers and a growth in actors who look to contribute police to international operations, and a broadening and deepening of policing tasks in this setting constitute what I call the ’new international policing’.KeywordsPolice ForceSolomon IslandInternational OrderInternational PeaceInternational PoliceThese 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.