While the political norms of states strive to maintain their sovereignty, states have long recognized their interdependence in the control of transnational illegal activities (Gerspacher 2009). Transnational crime has long been a significant obstacle to policing efforts. The widespread effects of globalization, global political and economic changes, technological advances, security challenges, and the implications of climate change have all served to influence the criminal environment and make community policing more challenging than ever ( Keelty 2007). According to Hills (2009) there is a widely shared belief that international police forces must cooperate if they are to respond effectively to crime and insecurity facilitated by globalisation. Operation Cathedral and the peacekeeping operation in the Solomon Islands will be explored to illustrate the negative and positive consequences of involvement in international policing operations. According to Sycamnias (1999) international policing is the term used to denote legal interaction and participation on a global scale by a variety of law enforcement bodies, in order to better develop and preserve individual jurisdictional justice systems. International police operations indeed give new meaning to the expression “long arm of the law”. Under normal conditions, countries have the power to control only activities that take place within their sovereign territorial borders (Sycamnias 1999). The international police allows the joint intervention of the countries within which the crimes originated or occurred. According to the United Nations Department of Public Information (2002), at a very simple level transnational criminal groups traffic human beings, in parts...... article ......e', International Peacekeeping, vol . 14, no. 5, pp. 569-583.• United Nations Department of Public Information 2002, Draft United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, accessed 10 May 2010, .• UNODC 2010, United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols, accessed 13 May 2010, .• Wainwright, E 2003, 'Responding to state failure: the case of Australia and the Solomon Islands', Australian Journal of International Affair, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 485-498.• Wallis, J 2006, 'A 'helpem fren' in need… Evaluating the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands', Security Challenges, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 81-98.• Williams, P, 2002, Organized Crime and Cyber-Crime: Implications for Business, Carnegie, Mellon University