Law enforcement in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada has seen a substantial transformation over the past half century, primarily due to its inextricable ties to legislation. Some practitioners and professionals allege that 9/11 was the marquee event that signified not only a new type of terrorism, but a new type of policing, broadened by 
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The Thin Blue Line and The Impact of Terrorism on the Transformation of Law Enforcement
By: Valarie Findlay | Friday, July 31st, 2015Publication Announcement - CSG Insight No.7: Paramilitary Violence and Policing in Northern Ireland
By: SSR Resource Centre | Thursday, July 16th, 2015The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Insight, “Paramilitary Violence and Policing in Northern Ireland” written by Branka Marijan and Seán Brennan. This article analyzes the impact of paramilitary activity and violence on the legitimacy and practices of the reformed Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). To read this CSG Insight, click here.
Increasing the momentum for police in African-led peacekeeping operations
By: Gustavo de Carvalho | Friday, March 27th, 2015African-led peace support operations (PSOs) are increasingly deployed to missions in high-risk environments, which often require combat activities. These are also contexts where the United Nations (UN) will not enter until a peace agreement has been signed and the peace process has reached critical mass – that is, when there is peace to keep. In
Bottom Up DDR: Sierra Leone’s Okada Riders
By: Michael Lawrence | Tuesday, March 19th, 2013In 2001-2, the United Nations supervised a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) program in Sierra Leone that processed 72,000 individuals, the majority of whom were youth. The program was a great success in its ability to disarm society, dissolve the military ranks of the Revolutionary United Front and reduce the size of the Sierra Leonean
A chorus of complaints about police reform in Indonesia
By: Laura Holland | Saturday, July 10th, 2010Imparsial, an Indonesian human rights watchdog , led a chorus of complaints from NGOs over the last month about the state of police reform in Indonesia. While the failure of reforms has been blamed on “weak supervision and lenient punishment for members involved in crimes”, Imparsial also singled out the police’s Internal Affairs Division and
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