Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday appointed an experienced female Swedish police officer as the top United Nations police official.
– The UN’s top cop is a woman, Mr. Ban told reporters in New York, noting that the announcement of Ann-Marie Orler as UN Police Adviser coincides with International Women’s Day.
INTERNATIONAL ERFARING
Ms. Orler, who first came to the UN to serve as Deputy Police Adviser in 2008, has been Acting Police Adviser since 2009.
In her native Sweden, she served as the Secretary General of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Amnesty International and was also the Police Commissioner in the town of Västmanland.
On the international stage, she has worked as the Programme Manager for Police and Human Rights with the Council of Europe, where she took part in fact-finding missions and trained police officers in Turkey and several Balkan nations, among others.
VIL SE FLERE KVINDELIGE BETJENTE
At present, there are nearly 13,000 UN Police (UNPOL) – more than 6 per cent of whom are women – from some 100 countries who work in 17 different field missions.
One of Ann-Marie Orler´s top priorities in her new role as the UN’s top police official will be to enhance the participation of female police officers so that they comprise 20 per cent of all UNPOL in peacekeeping by 2014, Ms. Orler said at a press conference Monday at UN Headquarters.
