unmit

Members of a Pakistani Formed Police Unit (FPU) of the UN Mission in Timor-Leste

Envoy urges caution on cuts to UN police strength in Timor-Leste

23 October 2009
Any drawdown of international security forces in Timor-Leste should proceed with caution, the top United Nations envoy to the South Pacific nation warned today ahead of UN and Government reviews of the world body’s peacekeeping presence in the fledgling country.
Timor-Leste's security forces in combined operations [File Photo]

Timor Leste: UN-trained national police to take up their beats

27 March 2009
The first areas of Timor-Leste to be policed by national squadrons since the violent clashes that shook the fledgling nation in 2006 have been chosen, the Government and the United Nations mission in the country (UNMIT) announced today.