Specialized Police Teams in UN Peace Operations: A Survey of Progress and Challenges

approach that includes the broader criminal justice system, and adaptable to context- inadequate communication and specific needs and challenges; coordination with the rest of the mission and the UN • Maintain continuity by implementing projects that country team, and poor understanding and support typically run three to five years; from senior mission leadership; • Facilitate relationship buildin. [...] Organizational arrangements: UNPD should promote a cultural shift in the way it manages and supports SPTs, clarify the roles and responsibilities of various sections in New York and the Standing Police Capacity in Brindisi, and strengthen coordination and consultation with member states. [...] Planning and project design: UNPD should formalize the conduct and substance of pre-deployment joint assessments for SPTs and institutionalize and clarify the role and composition of steering committees. [...] Monitoring, evaluation, and learning: The Secretariat and police commissioners should simplify, align, and strengthen monitoring and evaluation requirements, and UNPD should operationalize a knowledge-management system for organizational learning. [...] Meeting future needs: UNPD, member states, and senior mission leaders should broaden the areas of focus of future SPTs, and UNPD and the UN Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions should develop modalities for multidimensional specialized rule-of- law teams.