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UN offers ideas

by Mark Rowe

At its 21st meeting in April 2012 in Vienna, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice adopted a resolution that includes recommendations on the regulation of private security services.

The UN has requested that states consider these recommendations and provide feedback to allow the Commission to report back to its next meeting in April 2014.

As the SIA in the UK points out, these recommendations are not and will not be binding; they are simply guidelines that UN member states may wish to use if they choose to regulate the private security industry in their country, or to re-examine their laws.

The documents are extremely general in nature, offering ideas; for example saying that states may want to set minimum standards, without saying what they might be; and that ‘states may consider reviewing, evaluating and revising existing regulation on civilian private security services and, where no regulation exists, enacting specific comprehensive legislation’.

The resolution says that private military companies and private military and security companies – which have proved controversial for instance in Iraq and Afghanistan – are excluded.

Links

http://www.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk/Pages/un-resolution.aspx

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CCPCJ/session/21.html

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