Transnational police building: critical lessons from Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands

Somalia: Making Human Rights Central to the State Rebuilding

“…During the military government and subsequent transitional governments, both the police and military have been implicated in massive human rights abuses. As experiences elsewhere amply reveal, effective policing does not only require recruiting individuals for the force, but also requires: the establishment of political architecture of public safety, a complex of justice-oriented governance mechanisms that link policing agencies not just to prosecutors, courts and corrections, but also to the exercise of ministerial power and planning and control of resources by bureaucrats (Goldsmith & Dinne, 2007).…”

Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands

“…In part, the problem here was a wider one of the politicisation of justice under RAMSI (Averre 2008;Goldsmith and Dinnen 2007;O'Connor 2007bO'Connor , 2009aO'Connor , 2009b.…”

“…Roughan et al (2006:2) charge it with demanding austerity while 'practicing profligacy' and remaining 'opaque' while preaching 'transparency'. One might add that while urging de-politicisation of the criminal justice system, it used that system in a highly politicised fashion on many fronts (Averre 2008;Goldsmith and Dinnen 2007). Short peace operations such as in Bougainville keep the internationals out of murky waters that induce such resentment.…”

“…Photo: AAP/Lloyd Jones RAMSI police gradually pulled back from operational roles to capacity building (Goldsmith and Dinnen 2007)-a shift that can be hard for police whose only past experience has been operational. Moreover, the PPF continued to do the highest-profile operational work, such as major investigations, intelligence and controlling major outbreaks of disorder, and this was naturally the work foreign police sought to do as opposed to the less glamorous grind of capacity building in routine policing.…”

Police governance and accountability: overview of current issues

“…Finally, there are the complex and acute governance and accountability issues presented by the growth of cross-border policing, overseas policing missions to conflict zones, training of police in emerging States and transnational policing [4,5,6,7,23,53,88,138,171,176,195,210,211,212,213,215,246]. The rapid advances in travel and information technology have revolutionised the global free movement of people, business, finance, goods, services and ideas.…”