CHENGDU: A team of 18 police officers from Sichuan Province will fly to Kosovo next month to take part in a yearlong United Nations peacekeeping mission, officials have said.

Zeng Gang, an information officer with the provincial public security department, said it is the first time the Ministry of Public Security has entrusted a local security department to select officers for such a mission.

On December 21, the ministry asked the department to select 18 officers for the mission in line with the requirements of the United Nations.