Abstract
This chapter analyses the Secretariat’s influence on the decision to establish an SPC. At the World Summit in 2005, UN member states decided to put in place a small police corps under the command of the Secretary-General. The small group forms a rapid response team that has two core functions: to provide immediate start-up capability on the ground for police components of new peace operations; and to provide rapid support, advice, expertise and assistance to police components in existing UN peace operations with regard to institutional law-enforcement capacity-building. Additionally, the SPC can be used to conduct operational assessments and evaluations of police components of ongoing peace operations. Since then the SPC has grown in size and has delivered assistance and support to several peace and other UN operations — for instance, in the Central African Republic, Kosovo, Haiti, Sudan/Darfur, Lybia, Iraq and Chad (UN DPKO 2013).
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