2 October 2008 -- A total of 189 individual Police Advisors from twelve countries, including 17 female officers, have arrived in Darfur in the last month to join the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation (UNAMID). These latest arrivals from Bangladesh, EL-Salvador, Jordan, Malaysia, Malawi, Nepal, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda and Yemen bring the total number of UNAMID Police Advisors to 1,877, out of a mandated strength of 3,772

UNAMID Police Advisors are involved in training Community Policing Volunteers in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs); capacity building for the Government of Sudan Police and other parties to the Darfur conflict, to enable them to operate according to internationally accepted standards of policing; monitoring investigations into gender based violence cases; confidence building patrols in IDP camps and support to the delivery of humanitarian assistance to IDPs in Darfur.