MINURSO Teamsites
Headed by the Force Commander, 231 UN unarmed military observers (UNMOs) are distributed among 9 distant team sites east and west of the berm, a Liaision Office in Tindouf (Algeria), a staging area in Dakhla and in the Laayoune Headquarters.
The sites’ area of responsibility range from 12,000 to 47,000 square km. A team site carries out an average of 18 patrols (including night patrols) each week, covering a minimum of 2,000 km. Around 35-helicopter reconnaissance flights are conducted each month.
In 2005, in cooperation with Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), MINURSO developed a new CONOPS (Concept of Operations), becoming the first UN peacekeeping operation to fully integrate military and civilian activities. The field structure was reorganised by closing the Sector Headquarters, Smara and Dakhla, and redeploying UNMOs from the sector headquarters to the team sites in order to increase the patrol and reconnaissance capabilities of the Mission. The result was an average increase of twenty-five percent in patrols.
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