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The problem of the privileges and immunities of international organizations has become very prominent in recent times and has raised not a few difficult questions. While many aspects of this problem cannot yet be regarded as definitively settled, there is, on the other hand, a trend toward the development of a new uniform and general international law concerning this topic. It seems, therefore, timely to investigate briefly this problem in its different ramifications historical and theoretical.

This paper examines the law concerning the privileges and immunities of international police serving in UN peace operations. It describes the legal framework concerning privileges and immunities in UN peace operations and focuses on the key legal privileges and immunities that UN police are granted. More specifically the paper describes the immunity of UN police from criminal and civil jurisdiction of the host State.

At the close of the Civil War, the federal government was faced with the serious problem of protecting the newly freed negro from restrictions which the state governments might see fit to impose upon him. The War had been won and the negro freed, but there was no power in the federal government which could insure his civil liberties against state action. The Bill of Rights formed a bulwark against invasion of personal rights by the federal government, but it had no application to other jurisdictions. It was to remedy this situation that the Fourteenth Amendment was proposed and adopted. The control which it gives over state legislation is both positive and negative in character—the negative control being the more frequently invoked.