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Role of police in peacekeeping acknowledged at UN headquarters

Xinhua, November 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

The heads of police from UN peacekeeping missions on Monday gathered at UN headquarters in New York to discuss ways to improve their support to UN peacekeeping.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon thanked the heads of police for their contributions with prepared remarks delivered by his Chef de Cabinet, Susana Malcorra.

Ban is in Saudi Arabia for an unscheduled visit, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here earlier Monday.

Malcorra told the police commissioners and senior police personnel that the officers that they command every day work tirelessly to build new police services from the ground up and protect civilians.

"Police are on the frontline in the transition from violence to post-conflict societies," said Malcorra.

The meeting marked the beginning of Police Week, which will run from Nov. 9 to 13 here at UN headquarters.

Police are playing an increasingly important role in UN peacekeeping missions. Their numbers have grown from just a handful in the 1960s to over 12,500 in 2015, across 12 peacekeeping operations and five special political missions, according to a statement published on the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Facebook page on Friday.

In September at the UN General Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China would be contributing a permanent peacekeeping police squad to the UN. Endi