Police Reform – 1997

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Police Reform – 1997

1997

Intermediate Implementation Intermediate implementation

UNTAES reports in February of 1997 that it will recruit 700 Croats and will have a balanced Serb/Croat force of 1,500 by the end of March. They also indicate that the “performance of the Transitional Police Force in dealing with crime has continued to improve”.1 Among their duties, the civilian police units formed by UNTAES provide on-site training to the police force on conducting criminal investigations.2 UNTAES reports that it is in the planning stages of deploying civilian police monitors for a period of 9 months in the Danube region to start in January of 1998.3

  1. Report of the Secretary-General on UNTAES, 24 February 1997, S/1997/148.
  2. Source: Report of the Secretary-General on UNTAES, 23 June 1997, S/1997/487.
  3. UNTAES, Brief Chronology.