Australia\u2019s Federal Police Commissioner will this week urge her global counterparts to adopt a \u201cleaner, more sustainable\u201d Australian training model for officers taking part in future UN peacekeeping missions.<\/p>\n
Just days after attending a meeting of Five Eyes police chiefs in London, Commissioner Krissy Barrett has flown to New York for the United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit at the UN.<\/p>\n
Commissioner Barrett is also expected to meet FBI Director Kash Patel and sign new agreements with the private sector as well as law enforcement and defence agencies.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n In her address to the UN this week Australia\u2019s top police officer will outline how UN trainers from the AFP, the Pacific have created a leaner, more agile training program, which has reduced the duration from moths to just five weeks.<\/p>\n Last year at the Pinkenba training centre in Brisbane the AFP and Pacific Police Chiefs delivered the first residential UN-accredited program of its kind to more than 100 officers, with a pass rate of 73 per cent.<\/p>\n Some of the Pacific Police Peacekeepers have already deployed to the UN Mission in South Sudan.<\/p>\n \u201cWith our Pacific partners, we built a leaner, more sustainable police training model, without lowering the bar,\u201d Commissioner Barrett said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we say leaner, we mean a program delivered in five weeks instead of many months\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we say more affordable, we mean a model member states can actually sustain year on year, not one that strains a peacekeeping budget already under pressure. And when we say more agile, we mean police who can be trained closer to home and deployed where they\u2019re needed, faster.\u201d<\/p>\n During this week\u2019s UN meeting the AFP Commissioner and three Pacific Police Chiefs will also outline a proposal for a new Pacific bloc to ensure \u201csovereignty and security\u201d are determined in the region.<\/p>\n Last month Commissioner Barrett took part in a meeting of her counterparts from the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance, where discussions focused on protecting children from radicalisation.<\/p>\n \u201cNow the AFP will put on the table some of Australia\u2019s biggest concerns and how we could use the UN\u2019s strategic direction of global policing to help safeguard our country\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n One of my priorities is to champion the views and role of Pacific Island police chiefs, who want a greater say at global forums about security and safety matters that concern their region.\u201d In a side visit to Canada, Commissioner Barret will also officially open the AFP\u2019s newest overseas post in the country\u2019s capital Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Federal Police Commissioner will this week urge her global counterparts to adopt a \u201cleaner, more sustainable\u201d Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,1158],"class_list":["post-780649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}