ACRONYMS

1 RAR First Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment

ABA American Bar Association

ABiH Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina

ACOM U.S. Atlantic Command

AID U.S. Agency for International Development

AMGOT Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory

ANSP National Public Security Academy

AOJ AID Administration of Justice Project

APC armored personnel carrier

ARENA National Republican Alliance

ASF Auxiliary Security Force

ATP principal technical advisor

BAID Bosnian Agency for Investigation and Documentation

CA Civil Affairs

CAO Chief Administrative Officer

CARBG Canadian Airborne Regiment Battle Group

CARBG BOI Canadian Airborne Regiment Battle Group Board of Inquiry

CCEADM Joint Commission for Formation of the Mozambique Defense Force

CCF Cease-fire Commission

CCG community consultative groups

CEELI Central and Eastern European Law Initiative

CENTCOM U.S. Central Command

CEP Provisional Electoral Council

CID Criminal Investigation Division

CJCPD Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention Division

CMOC Civil-Military Operations Center

COMCMOTF Commander, Civil-Military Operations Task Force

COMPOL National Police Affairs Commission

COPAZ Commission for the Consolidation of Peace

CORE Reintegration Commission

CPP Cambodian People's Party

CRHB Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna

CSC Supervision and Control Commission

CTV Canadian Television

DAN Anti-Narcotics Division

DEA Drug Enforcement Administration

DENI Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones

DIC Criminal Investigations Division

DOD Department of Defense

DOJ U.S. Department of Justice

DPA Dayton Peace Accords

DPKO Department of Peacekeeping Operations

EC European Community

ECHR European Convention on Human Rights

EPLF Eritrean People’s Liberation Front

EPRDF Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front

FAA Foreign Assistance Act

FAd’H Haitian Armed Forces

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FMLN Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

FPP Fuerza Publica de Panama

FRAPH Front for Haitian Advancement and Progress

FRELIMO Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique

FTO field training officer

FUNCINPEC Front Uni National pour une Cambodge Indépendent, Neutre, Pacifique et Coopératif

GOH Government of Haiti

GOP Government of Panama

GPA General Peace Agreement

HNP Haitian National Police

HNPTC Haitian National Police Training Center

HOC Humanitarian Operations Center

HR        High Representative

HRS Humanitarian Relief Sector

HVO Bosnian Croat Army

I MEF I Marine Expeditionary Force

ICITAP    International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program

IEBL Inter-Entity Boundary Line

IFOR Implementation Force

IG    Inspector General

INL  Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement

IO    Department of State Bureau of International Organizations

IPM International Police Monitors

IPSF Interim Public Security Force

IPTF International Police Task Force

IUDOP Instituto Universitario de Opinión Publica

JCS  Joint Chiefs of Staff

JNA  Yugoslav Army

JOTC Jungle Operations Training Center

JTF Joint Task Force

KPNLF Khmer People’s National Liberation Front

KR  Khmer Rouge

LAC Latin American and the Caribbean

LCY  League of Communists of Yugoslavia

MAT Military Assistance Team

MFO Multi-National Force and Observers

MICIVIH UN/OAS International Civilian Mission

MINURSO U.N. Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

MINUSAL U.N. Mission in El Salvador

MIST military information support team

MNF Multinational Force

MP  Military Police

MSA mission subsistence allowance

MSG Military Support Group

MUP Ministry of Interior Special Police

NGO nongovernmental organization

NORDCAPS Nordic Coordinated Arrangements for Military Peace Support

OAS Organization of American States

OAS-EOM Organization of American States—Electoral Observer Mission

OFOF orders for opening fire

OHR Office of the High Representative

OIE State Intelligence Agency (Organo de Inteligencia del Estado)

ONUC Opérations des Nations Unies au Congo

ONUCA United Nations Observer Group in Central America

ONUMOZ U.N. Mission in Mozambique

ONUSAL U.N. Observer Mission in El Salvador

ONUV U.N. Verification Office

OPDAT Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training (formerly known as the Office of Professional Development and Training)

OPL Lavalas Political Organization

OPR Office of Public Responsibility

OPS Office of Public Safety

OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

PAT Auxiliary Transitory Police

PC police commissioner

PDF Panama Defense Force

PKO peacekeeping operation

PM Provost Marshal

PN National Police

PNC National Civilian Police

PNP Panamanian National Police

PRM Mozambican police

PSU Presidential Security Unit

PTJ Judicial Technical Police

QRF quick reaction force

RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police

RDHQ rapidly deployable headquarters

RENAMO Resistencia Nacional Moçambicana

ROE rules of engagement

RS Serb Republic

SAT U.N. Selection Assistance Team

SCR Security Council Resolution

SDA Party for Democratic Action

SDS Serb Democratic Party

SF special forces

SFOR Stabilization Force

SHIRBRIG Standing High-Readiness International Brigade

SIDA Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

SIU Special Investigative Unit

SNC Supreme National Council

SOC State of Cambodia

SOFA Status of Forces Agreement

SOP standard operating procedure

SPO Special Prosecutor’s Office

SRSG Special Representative of the Secretary-General

SWAPOL South West Africa Police

SWEDINT Swedish Armed Forces International Centre

TNA training needs assessment

UEA Executive Anti-Narcotics Unit

UNAMIC U.N. Advance Mission in Cambodia

UNAVEM U.N. Angola Verification Mission I, II, III

UNCIVPOL U.N. Civilian Police

UNCRO U.N. Confidence Restoration Operation

UNDP U.N. Development Programme

UNEF U.N. Emergency Force

UNFICYP U.N. Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus

UNGCI U.N. Guards Contingent in Iraq

UNHCR U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

UNITA National Union for the Total Independence of Angola

UNITAF United Task Force

UNMAS Nordic U.N. Peace-Keeping Mission Management Seminar

UNMIBH U.N. Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina

UNMIH U.N. Mission in Haiti

UNMO U.N. Military Observer

UNOSOM U.N. Operation in Somalia I, II

UNPA U.N. Protected Area

UNPOC U.N. Police Officers Course

UNPREDEP U.N. Preventive Deployment Force

UNPROFOR U.N. Protection Force

UNSCR U.N. Security Council Resolution

UNSMIH U.N. Support Mission in Haiti

UNSOC U.N. Staff Officers Course

UNTAC U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia

UNTAES U.N. Transitional Authority in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium

UNTAG U.N. Transition Assistance Group

UNTAT U.N. Training Assistance Team

UNTEA U.N. Temporary Executive Authority

USARSO U.S. Army South

USCINCSO U.S. Commander-in-Chief, Southern Command

USIP U.S. Institute for Peace

USLO U.S. Special Envoy Office

VRS Army of the Serb Republic

WEU Western European Union

WFP World Food Program

ZOS Zone of Separation

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