ABSTRACT
Richard Monk is an engaging, courteous man whose combination of humanity, intellect, humor, and strong will has led him from his early career as an English “bobby” to holding positions as UN police commissioner in Bosnia and Kosovo. In between these two appointments he was appointed by Ko Annan to be a member of the high-level UN
Introduction 329 Career 331
From the Boys’ Brigade to the Metropolitan Police Cadet Corps 331 First Postings 332 e Shepherds Bush Shootings 333 (His Studies at) Durham University 334 Return to Active Service 336 e Brixton Riots 337 International Postings 340 Full-time International Career-ird UN Police Commissioner Bosnia and Serbia 342
OSCE Plan for Policing Kosovo, and Follow-on Report 344 Kyrgistan 345 UN Police Commissioner for Kosovo 347
Concluding Remarks 349 Endnotes 350
Panel on Peace Operations and for 4 years was the senior police advisor to the secretary general of the 55 participating-state Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), formulating police assistance programs for post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Since returning to the UK, he has been welcomed back to his university college in Durham and is a luminary within the City of London Livery Company of Security Professionals, which he helped to found in 1999.
