Description
Serving both international good citizenship and the national interest, the Australian Federal Police has engaged internationally in various capacities over a sixty-year period in UN, multi-lateral and bi-lateral efforts aimed at peace and justice-based solutions. This book reviews many of these efforts through a diplomatic lens and argues that, as an effective instrument of preventative and restorative diplomacy, the AFP has earned a place as a legitimate participant in foreign policy considerations, and that these efforts serve as an example of how international policing can be done and why it merits its own diplomatic Track.
About the Author
Dr Martin Hess’s long career in the Australian Federal Police involved work in various operational capacities, including police intelligence, investigations, surveillance, close personal protection and general community policing, in Australia, and in extensive international engagements. He deployed to Cyprus with UNFICYP in 1996, to East Timor in 1999 with UNAMET and to Afghanistan in 2010-11 with AFP Operation Illuminate. He has also undertaken duties with the AFP Ministerial area and with the Policy and Governance area in relation to Australia’s Non-Permanent Seat on the United Nations Security Council 2013-2014 and was a member of the AFP International Deployment Group from 2007 until 2017.
