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Police Reform – 2003

The 2003 agreement required a reform of the police force. The Security Council in its resolution 1509 (2003) also requested such a reform. This resolution requested that the UNMIL assist the NTGL “in monitoring and restructuring the police force of Liberia, to develop a civilian police training programme and to assist in the training of the civilian police, in cooperation with ECOWAS, international organizations and interested States; and to assist the Transitional Government in the formation of a new and restructured Liberian military, also in cooperation with ECOWAS, international organizations, and interested States.”¹ To facilitate the reform of the police force, the UNMIL and the Secretariat developed a concept of operations that envisaged the deployment of 755 civilian police personnel and three formed police units, each comprised of 120 armed police personnel.²

1. “Secretary General’s Report to the UN Security Council,” United Nations Security Council (S/2003/1175), December 15, 2003.
2. Ibid.