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STORY: UN / LACROIX CHIEFS OF POLICE SUMMIT
TRT: 02:12
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 JUNE 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
26 JUNE 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, journalists, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, United Nations:
“UN Police is a very important component and not only of UN peacekeeping but very important component of the UN's effort to promote peace and stability in particular to the support and promotion that we extend to improving law enforcement and ultimately the rule of law.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, United Nations:
“In the context of conflicts, particularly where we have UN peace operations, there are challenges that are increasingly influencing conflictuality and those challenges, or many of them, are calling for a police type of response.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, United Nations:
“The increasingly influential challenges that we have in most of our conflict settings have to do with phenomenon such as the effects of climate change, environmental degradation, the impact of transnational criminal activities, global terrorism, and all of these challenges, again, call for police type of response and that is why we're putting a lot of emphasis and particularly in our capacity building activities to strengthen the rule of law capacities of the member states we work with and particularly help them better address these challenges.”
8. Wide shot, press room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Faisal Shahkar, Commissioner / United Nations Police Adviser:
“The skill sets, and the knowledge acquired by returning officers benefit national policing services when they go back from UN. Police officers who serve with the UN often under very challenging circumstances return to their home countries with different cultural awareness, perspectives and experiences and skills required for the police in an increasingly diverse, complex global environment.”
10. Wide shot, press room
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said, “UN Police is a very important component and not only of UN peacekeeping but very important component of the UN's effort to promote peace and stability.”
In particular, he added “to the support and promotion that we extend to improving law enforcement and ultimately the rule of law.”
Lacroix and the United Nations Police Adviser, Commissioner Faisal Shahkar, briefed the press today (26 Jun) about the fourth UN Chiefs of Police Summit that takes place in New York on 26 and 27 June.
Lacroix said, “In the context of conflicts, particularly where we have UN peace operations, there are challenges that are increasingly influencing conflictuality and those challenges, or many of them, are calling for a police type of response.”
He also said, “The increasingly influential challenges that we have in most of our conflict settings have to do with phenomenon such as the effects of climate change, environmental degradation, the impact of transnational criminal activities, global terrorism, and all of these challenges, again, call for police type of response and that is why we're putting a lot of emphasis and particularly in our capacity building activities to strengthen the rule of law capacities of the member states we work with and particularly help them better address these challenges.”
Commissioner Faisal Shahkar noted, “The skill sets, and the knowledge acquired by returning officers benefit national policing services when they go back from UN. Police officers who serve with the UN often under very challenging circumstances return to their home countries with different cultural awareness, perspectives and experiences and skills required for the police in an increasingly diverse, complex global environment.”
Building on the momentum of recent Peacekeeping Ministerial meetings and other initiatives, the Summit brings together more than 500 Member State representatives, including Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Chiefs of Police and Chiefs of Gendarmerie all to reaffirm the importance of multilateralism in addressing complex global challenges.
