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STORY: UN / POLICE BRIEFING
TRT: 02:34
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
13 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council briefing with UN Police in progress
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations:
“If we associate peacekeeping with military blue helmets it is because the protection of civilians is a responsibility of the police. This is because these men and women are trained, and their vocation is to engage with the community, analyse potential threats and in case to act.”
4. Med shot, delegates from Lithuania and Malaysia during briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations:
“Protection is unarmed because one tries to establish a relationship with the community but what we cannot exclude is that this kind of protection becomes in some specific circumstance a physical protection, and it may call for the use of force.”
6. Wide shot, briefing in progress
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Brent, Deputy Police Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“There are constant, daily threats to our staff and situations can quickly escalate to where staff members are surrounded by tens and even hundreds of aggressive and threatening IDPs (Internally Displaced Peoples). Serious physical injury to UN personnel has happened on several occasions. But in response, UNMISS continues to look for innovative ways and a better way, of doing things.”
8. Med shot, briefing in progress
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Pascal Champion, Police Commissioner of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO):
“The Congolese Police Force is in a delicate situation. No miracles can be carried out without adaptive support. We must go beyond simple counsel and review. Finally, protecting civilians demands determination, capacities and resources. This is the case for both the Congolese Police Force and the United Nations.”
10. Med shot, delegates listening to remarks
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Hinds, Police Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL):
“The Ebola crisis presented unprecedented challenges – it tested the Mission’s ability to re-think and adapt the execution of its protection of civilians’ mandate, and explored new areas of cooperation and support with the national police and other actors in providing a security envelope to allow the necessary health and humanitarian efforts to occur. This highlights the critical role police play, in often unpredictable operational contexts, in protecting civilians.”
12. Wide shot, briefing in progress
UN peacekeeping officers from missions in South Sudan, DRC and Liberia discussed their operations’ challenges, during a Security Council briefing today (13 Nov) at the United Nations in New York.
During his opening remarks, the Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Herve Ladsous, told delegates “if we associate peacekeeping with military blue helmets it is because the protection of civilians is a responsibility of the police. This is because these men and women are trained, and their vocation is to engage with the community, analyse potential threats and in case to act.”
He also added that “protection is unarmed because one tries to establish a relationship with the community but what we cannot exclude is that this kind of protection becomes in some specific circumstance a physical protection, and it may call for the use of force.”
Charles Brent, Deputy Police Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), said his staff faced constant, daily threats “and situations can quickly escalate to where staff members are surrounded by tens and even hundreds of aggressive and threatening IDPs (Internally Displaced Peoples). Serious physical injury to UN personnel has happened on several occasions. But in response, UNMISS continues to look for innovative ways and a better way, of doing things.”
The Police Commissioner of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), Pascal Champion, said the Congolese Police Force was in a delicate situation and that “no miracles can be carried out without adaptive support. We must go beyond simple counsel and review. Finally, protecting civilians demands determination, capacities and resources. This is the case for both the Congolese Police Force and the United Nations.”
Speaking about the many challenges his mission faced during the outbreak of the Ebola virus, Gregory Hinds, Police Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), told the Security Council that the situation on the ground tested the “Mission’s ability to re-think and adapt the execution of its protection of civilians’ mandate, and explored new areas of cooperation and support with the national police and other actors in providing a security envelope to allow the necessary health and humanitarian efforts to occur. This highlights the critical role police play, in often unpredictable operational contexts, in protecting civilians.”
