International Peace Support Operations and Humanitarian Relief Missions
On 3 April 1992, fifteen months into its reconstitution, the PNP began sending its international contingent to peace support operations and humanitarian relief missions in conflict areas around the world. Although most of these endeavors were United Nations-launched, there were some deployments made under the "lead-nation" concept or as an initiative of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines.
UN Peace Support Operations requiring UN Civilian Police services may be armed or unarmed peacekeeping, peace-building, or specialized efforts.
The PNP's international deployments are:
CAMBODIA: 1992-93
♦United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)
HAITI: 1994-95; 2004–present
♦Operation Uphold Democracy in Haïti - International Police Monitors component
♦UN Mission in Haïti (UNMIH)
♦la Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti/
UN Stabilization Mission in Haïti (MINUSTAH)
EAST TIMOR: 1999-2002
♦UN Mission in East Timor (UNAMET)
♦UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)
TIMOR-LESTE: 2002–present
♦UN Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET)
♦UN Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL)
♦UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)
KOSOVO: 1999-2009
♦UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
IRAQ: 2003-04
♦Philippine Humanitarian Contingent in Iraq (PHCI)
LIBERIA: 2004–present
♦UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)
AFGHANISTAN: 2004–09
♦UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
THE SUDAN (Southern): 2005–present
♦UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS)
CÔTE D'IVOIRE: 2005-07
♦l'Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire/
UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI)
NEPAL: 2007-08
♦UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)
GEORGIA: 2007–09
♦UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG)
LEBANON: 2008
♦UN Independent International Investigation Commission in Lebanon (UNIIIC)
THE SUDAN (Western): 2008–present
♦UN-African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
Among the luminaries of the PNP Contingent is Police Director Rodolfo A Tor, who became the first Filipino police commissioner of a UN operation. In 2006, he was tasked to head the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste, one of the largest civilian police operations established by the UN. The PNP Contingent's first female member was noncommissioned Senior Police Officer 2 Ester A Mardicas (deployed to East Timor in August 1999), while its first female police commissioned officer was Police Inspector Aurisa I Mitra (deployed to Kosovo in July 2000).
The PNP Contingent has no fatalities in the line of fire. The 1993 deaths of Senior Police Officers 4 Winston Zerrudo and Edilberto Evangelista, both UNTAC Police, were due to non-hostile causes.
As of 30 June 2010, the PNP Contingent has sent 1,600-plus police officers to UN and other international peace support operations and humanitarian relief missions. (Several police officers have been deployed more than once in their careers.) It has delivered an estimated minimum of 3.5 million (wo)man-hours in the mission areas.
The PNP Contingent awaits the deployment of the Philippine Formed Police Unit, or FPU, of which creation was approved by the National Police Commission in 2006.
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