Abstract
There have been momentous shifts underway in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The UN Police Division, long back the ‘poor cousin’ of the military side of the house, has been elevated to a new status. In the new institutional environment, the Division is now embedded within a rule of law and security institutions pillar, with its own Assistant Secretary-General, and which is increasingly recognised as being central to the successful conduct of UN peacekeeping operations. This paper looks at the rise of the Police division within the UN family, and assesses some of the challenges currently facing the UN's unprecedented push to use police to a much greater and deeper extent in very challenging contemporary peace operations.
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