International police development (IPD) has a poor record of success, due in large part to failures in assessing needs and planning interventions. Too often the more profound, yet complex, challenges of institutional and constitutional reform give way to the obvious and comparatively easy delivery of training and equipment. Police accountability, arguably the most important component of democratic policing, needs to be assessed in a consistent and rational manner if deployment of resources and effort on the part of donors are to result in more convincing outcomes. It is argued here that the provisions by which effective police accountability is brought about should be the first priority of IPD missions. Drawing on the academic and policy literature, this article presents a model of police accountability which can form the basis for needs assessment as an aid to IPD planning.
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