European police officers for Somalia?

(B2) The European Union could send one or more police advisers to the Somali police restructuring mission. It is not strictly speaking a police mission (like Eupol), autonomous and structured, which intervenes directly with the authorities of the country concerned, advises and/or trains the local police units, but more of a secondment of Police Advisers from Member States who will assist the African Union Strategic Planning and Management Unit (SPMU). This (or these advisers) will also be stationed in Addis Ababa, headquarters of the African Union – rather than directly in Somalia. Even if field trips are not to be excluded. (Nb: the EU has already sent four military advisers to the AMISOM Headquarters in Addis Ababa).

The peace support mission in Somalia of the African Union (AMISOM) includes a civilian unit whose function is to restructure, set up and train a Somali police unit responsible for ensuring order. Vast task... Especially since the African Union is still struggling to gather the necessary personnel and funds for AMISON (according to the site of theUniversity of Montreal, the military force arrives with difficulty at 3750 men on the fixed objective of 8000). One of the objectives of the
International donors' conference on Somalia, which meets on Wednesday and Thursday in Brussels, in the presence of all those responsible (UN, African Union, Arab League, European Union) is also to collect the necessary sums: 170 million euros for the peacekeeping operation and 24 million for the police. The objective being to establish a police force of 10.000 men.

(NGV)