Formed Police Unit

A Formed Police Unit (FPU) is a law enforcement unit used by some international organizations, such as the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), and African Union (AU), in support of peacekeeping operations. Each FPU is composed of personnel contributed by a member state and deployed under the organization's authority. History Formed Police Units were first used in 1999 with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor. In 2007, the first all-female FPU – contributed by India – was deployed as part of the United Nations Mission in Liberia. A second all-female FPU was contributed by Bangladesh to the UN mission in Haiti in 2010. The African Union stood-up its first FPUs in 2012 in support of the African Union Mission in Somalia. Two 140-member FPUs were sent to Somalia that year, one each from Uganda and Nigeria.