UNMIS Police Gender & Child Protection Sensitization Workshop, Juba 21-23 Nov. 2005 - © Arpan Munier

UNMIS Police are deployed in the mission area divided in MHQ, 3 Regional HQ, one Assistance Cell and 18 Team Sites. UNMIS Police Operations Section is responsible to coordinate the information flow among all stations on the field, planning and implementation Sections. See chart »»

Operations Section is tasked in receiving information, make all assessments and analysis, identify necessities, propose and recommend actions for the implementation of UNMIS Police actions on the ground.

Operations Section works under 2 concepts of work:

Targeted Monitoring is a process of observation, targeting specific areas of activities or processes, conducted with a specific purpose of collecting information that is supposed to be used for improvement of targeted activity/process.

Targeted Monitoring in UNMIS Police activity is a tool that must be used by the UN Police Advisors to target various areas of the local police and its activities to collect sufficient information that could be classified, analyzed and used for the reform and restructuring, training and capacity building of the local police service.

In line with the Police Commissioner’s initiatives to make the Police role more focused, purposeful, proactive and evaluate the result of the trainings and capacity building activities carried out in the past one year, targeted monitoring has been introduced in the entire Mission area. Under the programme, the UN Police would carefully observe the performance of the local Police with regard to core policing issues like dealing with complainants, responding to complaints, investigation of crime, dealing with women, children, arrested persons, law awareness and related matters. Special questionnaires have been designed by the operations, training and R&R sections which would be filled up by the UN police officers. The information would be collected, collated and analyzed at the MHQ. Based on the data analysis, conclusions would be drawn to orient, modify or reinforce all training, capacity building and other efforts of the UN Police to ensure optimum utilisation of resources and enhance service delivery to the community by the local Police. R&R is working hand in hand with the Training and operations Sections on this project.

• Methodology:
  Targeted Monitoring will be conducted by the UNMIS Police Advisors in the field at different level of the local police structure.
  A number of monitoring tools, such as Questionnaires on Training, R&R, Investigation etc. will be created by the concerned MHQ/RHQ/SHQ Sections and provided to the personnel in the field. Questionnaires will be completed by the UN Police Advisors after the monitoring is completed and not by the question and answer method.
• Implementation:
  Targeted Monitoring will be implemented as sequences of continuous campaigns/monitoring projects/practical exercises. It will afford Police Advisors performing patrol/monitoring duties with a monitoring tool that focuses on issues relevant to UNMIS Police mandated activities, allowing proper collection and dissemination of information that identifies the needs of the Local Police.
  The task, duration and area of implementation of project/ exercise will be determined according to the final target of the campaign itself.
• Analysis, dissemination and storage of information:
  MHQ Operations will be responsible for collection, statistical adaptation and delivery of information to concerning UNMIS Police Sections (Training and Development, R&R, Planning) for final analysis and preparation of the consolidated report to UNMIS Police Commissioner.

A special program has been launched in the South with a view to provide on the job training to the local Police and enhance professional standards at the grassroots level.

Under the programme, a selected team of UN Police officers will collocate with the SSPS at nominated Police Stations. The team would work in unison with the local Police and advice and guide the local Police in improving service delivery to the community by enhancing their professional competence, response time, awareness of international standards, especially with regard to human rights, dealing with women and children and treatment of the arrested persons and detainees. Guidelines for treatment of arrested persons and detainees, crime scene attendance, interrogation of suspects and interviewing witnesses and victims have also been provided to the co locators. A set of basic documents required to be maintained in the Police station has also been provided to the co locators who would advise the local Police in filling and maintaining them.