National Police of East Timor
The Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste ( PNTL ; German National Police East Timors ) is the police force of East Timor . It consists of 4,165 civil servants, 623 of whom are women (as of the end of 2018). The police are subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior . The general command of the PNTL is located in Dili 's Caicoli district .
history
| PNTL assumed responsibility since 2006 | |
| date | Districts / Area |
| February 5, 2008 | Dili , in the districts of Bairro Pite, Bidau and Mercado Lama |
| May 14, 2009 | Lautém |
| June 2009 | Oecusse |
| July 25, 2009 | Manatuto |
| December 5, 2009 | Viqueque |
| December 14, 2009 | Police duties at sea and police training center |
| April 12, 2010 | Ainaro |
| April 16, 2010 | Baucau |
| September 7, 2010 | Liquiçá |
| September 10, 2010 | Ermera |
| September 28, 2010 | Immigration Service, National INTERPOL Office , Border Patrol |
| March 27, 2011 | Complete responsibility for the whole country |
The PNTL was set up on March 27, 2000 by the UN administration, under which East Timor stood after 24 years of Indonesian occupation since 1999. Many of the police officers the Indonesians recruited during the occupation were Kaladi from the west of the country. The UN and the independent East Timor took over 300 of these police officers in their service, from which u. a. the simmering conflict between police and military F-FDTL resulted. The military F-FDTL consists mostly of Firaku , residents of the east of the country and former freedom fighters.
On August 10, 2001, the first police officers of the East Timor Police Service (ETPS) began their service, together with the international police units of UNTAET , which also trained the East Timorese police officers. The multinational nature of the trainers, who come from 52 countries, including countries such as Zambia and Ukraine, was problematic . The police force was later renamed the Timor-Leste Police Service before being given its current name with the country's independence on May 20, 2002, along with full police force. Since December 10, 2003, the PNTL with 2500 officials had sole responsibility in the country.
In 2006 riots broke out in East Timor . On May 25, rebelling soldiers and the PNTL clashed, in which eight police officers were killed. Finally, an international reaction force had to restore order, followed later by a new UN mission, the UNMIT , which consisted of international police forces. A joint commission of the government and the UN assessed the behavior of the police officers during the riots and came to the conclusion on December 1, 2007 that of the 3,110 officers, 186 police officers are to be classified as reliable and a further 1,274 are provisionally reliable. The other 1,650 men face dismissal. Since 2008, the PNTL has gradually taken over responsibility for security in the individual districts of the country. In 2009 the Police Special Reserve Unit (URP) was converted into the Companhia de Operações Especiais (COE) and the Rapid Intervention Police Unit (UIR) into the Public Order Battalion (BOP). On March 27, 2011, on the eleventh birthday of the PNTL, the National Police finally took over full responsibility for internal security in the country from the UN. The PNTL has been solely responsible again since October 31, 2012.
There were repeated allegations of human rights violations by police officers. Although there is no organized torture, a culture of violence in society always leads to attacks. According to a UN report in August 2008 on the human rights situation, 44 cases were investigated by the East Timorese authorities. On December 28, 2009, a young man was shot dead by a police officer in Delta Nova / Dili. Demands were then made to disarm the police. In 2011, the local human rights organization HAK registered 90 cases of human rights violations by police officers and “only” nine by soldiers of the East Timorese Defense Forces (F-FDTL) in the same period.
On November 18, 2018, a drunken police officer who was off duty shot dead three young men in the Culuhun tragedy . The incident sparked general outrage and protests, as police officers are only allowed to carry weapons while on duty. The gunman and three other officers involved were arrested.
General Commanders of the National Police
| Commanders general | |||
| photo | Surname | period of service | Deputy |
|
Paulo de Fátima Martins | March 27, 2000 to 2006 | |
| Afonso de Jesus | interim 2006 to March 27, 2009 | ||
|
Longuinhos Monteiro | March 27, 2009 to February 16, 2015 | |
|
Júlio Hornay | March 27, 2015 to March 27, 2019 | Faustino da Costa |
|
Faustino da Costa | since March 27, 2019 | Mateus Fernandes |
Parts of the PNTL
The PNTL is divided into 13 community commandos, the largest of which are those of Dili with 467 officials and von Baucau with 200 officials. In addition there is the training center in Dili, the general command with 306 officers and several special units.
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Unidade Especial de Polícia (UEP), the special police unit, the largest subdivision of the PNTL with 712 officers.
- Batalhão de Ordem Pública / Batelaun Ordem Publika (BOP, in the English Public Order Battalion)
- Companhia de Segurança Pessoal
- Companhia de Operações Especiais (COE, English Police Special Operation Unit), formerly Police Special Reserve Unit (URP)
- Seksaun Anti Terrorista (SAT), anti-terrorist unit
- Pelotão de Apoio e Serviços
- Unidade de Patrulhamento de Fronteira (UPF, often in English Border Police Unit BPU).
- Unidade da Polícia Marítima (UPM)
- Serviço de Migração de Timor-Leste (Immigration Service). An independent service since 2008. General Manager: Superintendente Polísia Agostinho Gomes .
- Service of Informações de Polícia (SIP)
- Polísia Sientífika Investigasaun Kriminál (PSIK) / Polícia Científica de Investigação Criminal (PCIC) / Criminal Police.
National Director : Hermenegildo da Cruz (2015), Vicente Fernandes e Brito (2017)
Badge of the PNTL
Immigration service
Criminal Police (PCIC)
Uniforms on parade for 19th Police Day 2019
President Francisco Guterres walks down the line of honor
Counter-terrorism unit COE-SAT
Companhia de Operações Especiais COE
PRDF
General Command
Unidade de Patrulhamento de Fronteira UPF
Unidade da Policia Maritima UPM
vehicles
Police station with armored vehicles from PNTL and BOP
Police car in East Timor
NV Timor-Leste of UPM
UPM
literature
- Elizabeth Myat: Smoke and Mirrors: The Development of the East Timorese Police 1999-2009 , 2010.
Web links
- Official website
- Flavio Simoes: The Key to Successful Elections in Timor-Leste: Professional Security Forces , In: The Diplomat, March 21, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SAPO: Morre uma pessoa a cada cinco dias vítima de acidentes de viação em Timor-Leste , October 29, 2019 , accessed on October 30, 2019.
- ^ Asia One News, March 28, 2009, E. Timor swears in new police chief
- ↑ a b UNMIT, March 29, 2010, Timorese police celebrate 10th anniversary. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Scoop, February 5, 2008, More Authority For National Police In Timor-Leste
- ↑ ABC news, May 14, 2009, E Timor police take back first district
- ^ Australian Civil-Military Center
- ^ UNMIT Press Release, December 5, 2009, Timor-Leste commits to police accountability; resumption in Viqueque ( Memento of the original of December 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Timor Expose, September 12, 2010, PNTL resumes primary policing responsibilities in Ermera ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ UNMIT, April 12, 2010, PNTL resumes primary policing responsibilities in Ainaro. ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ UNMIT, April 16, 2010, PNTL resumes primary policing responsibilities in Baucau.
- ↑ Reliefweb 7 September 2010, Timor-Leste: PNTL resumes primary policing responsibilities in Liquica
- ↑ UN news center, September 28, 2010, Timorese police resume responsibility from UN for key security bodies
- ↑ a b Radio Netherlands Worldwide, March 27, 2011, E. Timor police take over from UN force ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fischer World Almanac 2009
- ↑ Asia One: UN hands full police powers to E. Timor , October 31, 2012 , accessed October 31, 2012
- ↑ ABCnews, August 23, 2008, E Timor army accused of abuse, death threats
- ^ Radio Australia, January 5, 2010, Calls for East Timor police to disarm
- ^ Independente: Ninety human rights violation cases involving PNTL and nine case involving F- FDTL , December 14, 2011
- ↑ Lusa: Quatro polícias detidos após disparos que fizeram três mortos em festa em Díli , November 18, 2018. , accessed on November 19, 2018.
- ↑ The President of East Timor's Facebook page: Discursu hosi Sua Exelénsia Prezidente Repúblika, Dr. Francisco Guterres Lú Olo iha okaziaun Serimónia Aniversáriu Polísia Nasionál Timor-Leste ba dala 19 , 27 March 2019 , accessed on 28 March 2019.
- ↑ Tatoli: Servisu Migrasaun Deporta Sidadaun Indonézia 12 , September 18, 2019 , accessed on April 3, 2020.
