UNPOL
United Nations Police

List of policy documents

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Handbook on United Nations Multidimensional Peacekeeping Operations
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Handbook on United Nations Multidimensional Peacekeeping Operations The Handbook is intended to serve as an introduction to the varied aspects of multidimensional peacekeeping operations and to provide readers with a general overview of the responsibilities of each component of the operation. The primary audience of the Handbook is field personnel who are new to the UN or who are being deployed to a multidimensional peacekeeping operation for the first time.

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Directive on Sexual Harassment in United Nations Peacekeeping and Other Field Missions, for Military Members of National Contingents, Military Observers and Civilian Police Officers (DPKO/MD/03/00995) 2003
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The purpose of the Directive on Sexual Harassment in United Nations Peacekeeping and Other Field Missions, for Military Members of National Contingents, Military Observers and Civilian Police Officeris to inform military members of national contingents, military observers and civilian police officers of the United Nations
policy and procedures on sexual harassment. Field mission personnel are strongly advised to familiarize themselves with this directive and to abide by it.
This directive provides illustrations of what constitutes sexual harassment; explains the different avenues for resolution of differences/grievances; outlines
the steps necessary to lodge a complaint and the organizational process to address a grievance of sexual harassment.

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Letter of undertaking by United Nations Police Officers 2003
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The letter requests the signer, among others to "abide by the highest standards of integrity while in service for the United Nations and to refrain from any conduct that would adversely reflect on the United Nations. I shall refrain from any action or activity incompatible with the impartial and independent nature of my duties and inconsistent with the letter or spirit of the authorized mandate of the mission.

Report of the Secretary-General on No exit without strategy: Security Council decision-making and the closure or transition of United Nations peacekeeping operations [S/2001/394]
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Report of the Secretary-General on No exit without strategy: Security Council decision-making and the closure or transition of United Nations peacekeeping operations [S/2001/394] of 20 April 2001
Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (Brahimi report) [A/55/305]
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Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (Brahimi report) [A/55/305] of 21 August 2000
Report of the Independent Inquiry into the actions of the United Nations during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda [S/1999/1257]
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Report of the Independent Inquiry into the actions of the United Nations during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda [S/1999/1257] of 16 December 1999
Statement by the Secretary-General on Report of the Independent Inquiry into the actions of the United Nations during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda [SG/SM/7263]
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Statement by the Secretary-General on Report of the Independent Inquiry into the actions of the United Nations during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda [SG/SM/7263] of 16 December 1999
Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/35: The fall of Srebrenica [A/54/549]
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Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/35: The fall of Srebrenica [A/54/549] of 15 November 1999
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Ten rules: code of personal conduct for blue helmets (1999)
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Ten rules: code of personal conduct for blue helmets (1999).

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Somalia [S/1995/231]
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Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Somalia [S/1995/231] of 28 March 1995, providing assessment of the circumstances that led to the UN withdrawal from Somalia
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