International Police Task Force

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The International Police Task Force , or IPTF for short , was an unarmed "monitor" police unit in Bosnia-Herzegovina , composed of international police forces , which was deployed within the framework of the UNMIBH (United Nations Mission in Bosnia- Herzegovina ) . The official language for all participating nations was English; The blue UN beret, a blue scarf and the UN identity card ( ID card ) were worn uniformly with the national uniforms . The emergency vehicles were white with clearly recognizable UN lettering on all sides.

The task of the IPTF was to monitor the " Dayton Agreement " and, in this context, to constantly monitor the local police forces, to help rebuild a democratic, multiethnic police force throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, to mediate in disputes between the police forces of the former warring parties and to clarify the matter The whereabouts of war criminals . Violations of any kind on the part of local police forces of the Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Bosnians against the jointly negotiated ceasefire conditions of the Dayton Agreement led to a. on "Non-Compliance Reports" by the IPTF Monitors to the UNMIBH Headquarters / Sarajevo . This also resulted in the dismissal of suspicious police members of the formerly hostile groups to a not inconsiderable extent, as these after the war and the like. a. were also paid by the UN.

The members of the German Police Contingent ("GEPOLCON" = German Police Contingent) of the IPTF were at that time, which is hardly known, already before the Bundeswehr nationwide in the operational area of ​​Bosnia-Herzegovina and thus the first German uniform wearers since the end of the Second World War in the Balkans .

The IPTF mission as part of UNMIBH lasted from December 1995 to December 2002. On January 1, 2003, the United Nations handed over its police-specific tasks to the police mission of the European Union , which has significantly fewer (European) police personnel due to the now more stable situation in the operational area gets by.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ UNMIBH - UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. North Rhine-Westphalia police, accessed on February 5, 2014 .