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Police in Timor Leste

Timor-Leste: first batch of police return to work under UN mentoring scheme

27 September 2006
The first group of Timor Leste police has resumed work under a United Nations mentoring scheme after being relieved of duty earlier this year in violence that shook the small South East Asian nation, which the world body shepherded to independence from Indonesia just four years ago.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

Departing UN envoy warns Timor-Leste of the danger of ‘black hole’ of conflict

22 September 2006
Giving his final press conference today after four years in Timor-Leste, the top United Nations envoy warned the country’s leaders that the tiny South-East Asian nation could be sucked into a “black hole” of conflict following the upsurge of violence earlier this year and amid continued tension, especially in the capital Dili.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

UN envoy in Timor-Leste calls for unity; pledges to strengthen the justice system

19 September 2006
Urging all Timorese to work together in the wake of the deadly violence that flared up this year in the tiny South-East Asian country, the top United Nations envoy today pledged increased support for the fledgling judicial system, while the UN’s senior police officer in Timor-Leste called on everyone to help in the drive to collect illegal weapons.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

Security Task Force in Timor-Leste agrees to step up disarmament – UN mission

18 September 2006
A Security Task Force in Timor-Leste, where violence earlier this year caused over three dozen deaths and forced some 150,000 people to flee their homes, has agreed to step up a national disarmament campaign, the United Nations mission there (UNMIT) has reported.
UN police in Timor-Leste

UN takes over policing activities in Timor-Leste

14 September 2006
Less than three weeks after the Security Council approved an expanded mission in Timor-Leste, the United Nations Police (UNPOL) there has assumed command of national policing in the fragile country.

Timor-Leste: UN commissioners near completion of probe into violence

13 September 2006
The United Nations Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste is close to finishing its report into the violence earlier this year that engulfed the country, causing 37 deaths and forcing more than 150,000 people – or about 15 per cent of the national population – to flee their homes.
Antero Lopes, UN Acting Police Commissioner in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste: New acting UN Police Commissioner named

5 September 2006
As part of United Nations efforts to foster stability in Timor-Leste, Police Advisor Antero Lopes has been designated Acting Police Commissioner for the UN peacekeeping operation in the country, where he worked previously on law enforcement issues.
Some of the thousands displaced in Timor-Leste

Violence increasing in Timor-Leste, UN refugee agency reports

1 September 2006
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is voicing alarm about rising violence in Timor-Leste, where the agency today gave the Government 1,500 family-size tents, plastic sheeting and other relief items to help people affected by unrest earlier this year.