ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one aspect of civil-military co-operation: co-operation between foreign military and authorities responsible for policing' or executive law enforcement organisations. The past two decades have seen a great number of multilateral policing missions to which western and other countries not only contributed civilian police, but also military police. In some cases regular military units and military staff officers worked with local police and local authorities. International policing missions are complex projects with many actors, programs and projects, often taking many years to be executed. They face many challenges, one of the most prominent being the measurement of effectiveness. This chapter provides deeper insight into the effectiveness of international policing missions. The Dutch literature contains no solid evaluations of policing missions or the Dutch contribution to them. There are, however, some personal records on the Stabilisation Force in Iraq (SFIR).
