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	DefenseLink News Article: Iraqi Police Making Strides, Still Dealing With Challenges
		The Iraqi government decreed 2006 the "Year of the Police" in Iraq, recognizing the importance of building a competent police force with the confidence of the Iraqi people.
		Barham explained that Iraqi police are organized based on several different roles and missions: station police, patrol police, traffic police, river police, checkpoint police, highway patrol, and major crimes units.
		Corruption in the Iraqi ranks and the sheer amount of area that teams under the 49th have to cover add to the difficulty of the mission.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/newsarticle.aspx?id=15327 (542 words)

	Stability of Iraqi police eroding - The Boston Globe
		And in cases where police officers chose to defend their stations from attacks, they were vastly outgunned, using light machine guns to fend off hundreds of fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, hand-grenades, and heavy machine guns.
		US and Iraqi officials said they are investigating every police officer to learn who shirked their duties and who mutinied during the tumultuous events this month, but they have refused to estimate the breadth of the problem.
		Khafaji, the national police coordinator, recalled that last summer, in their rush to hire recruits, the US military and its allies flooded police departments across the country with thousands of green officers, pushing the total to its present level.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/04/18/stability_of_iraqi_police_eroding (1499 words)

	Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans for Iraqi Police
		Iraqi officials said they were determined that the new interior minister be politically independent, free of the taint of death squads, someone who could reassure Iraq's Sunnis that the police are not their enemy.
		Reed Schmidt, a police chief from Atwater, Minn., said he was teaching the police in Najaf his two-cop method for pulling a driver over when they told him they preferred their own method — the one that involved two pickup trucks with seven officers in each to surround the car with 14 guns.
		Senior officers in the police department in the southern city of Basra were implicated in the killings of 10 members of the Baath Party, and of a mother and daughter accused of prostitution, according to a State Department report.
	www.thepowerhour.com /news2/iraqi_police.htm (4636 words)

	CorpWatch : IRAQ: Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans for Iraqi Police
		Iraqi officials said they were determined that the new interior minister be politically independent, free of the taint of death squads, someone who could reassure Iraq's Sunnis that the police are not their enemy.
		Reed Schmidt, a police chief from Atwater, Minn., said he was teaching the police in Najaf his two-cop method for pulling a driver over when they told him they preferred their own method — the one that involved two pickup trucks with seven officers in each to surround the car with 14 guns.
		Senior officers in the police department in the southern city of Basra were implicated in the killings of 10 members of the Baath Party, and of a mother and daughter accused of prostitution, according to a State Department report.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=13600 (4761 words)

	Iraqi Police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Today, Iraqi police academies graduate new officers at a rate of 6,000 per month to add to the 80,000 police already on the streets of Iraq.
		Police have arrested various leaders of the insurgency, including a top aide to Iraqi Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the mastermind who formed an Islamic militant organization responsible for several attacks against the Iraqi National Guard.
		The new Iraqi police are better equipped with 69 million rounds of ammunition and 148 million rounds more in storage; 70,000 pistols; 49,000 AK-47s; 1,700 PKM heavy machine guns and 5,700 vehicles.
	www.kumawar.com /IraqiPolice/forces.php (346 words)

	A neglected linchpin: Iraqi police - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		Police units are accused of operating death squads for political groups or simple profit.
		Not only was the police force inept and rife with corruption, but fractious tribal, sectarian and criminal groups were competing to control it after the invasion.
		Field training of the Iraqi police, the most critical element of the effort, was left to DynCorp International, a company based in Irving, Texas, that received $750 million in contracts.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/05/21/news/police.php (811 words)

	Online NewsHour: Tactics of Training Iraqi Police Forces -- December 30, 2005
		Even though the terrorists are targeting Iraqi police and army recruits, there is no shortage of Iraqis who are willing to risk their lives to secure the future of a free Iraq.
		She also served as a police trainer in Kosovo and is a retired lieutenant in the Memphis police force.
		The command structure within the police, for example, the head of the commandos that you were discussing earlier in your piece, he's a Sunni, he is not a Shiite; his deputy is a Sunni, his other deputy is a Shia, so it is a mixture.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec05/iraq_12-30.html (2411 words)

	McClatchy Washington Bureau \| 03/19/2006 \| Iraqi police report details civilians' deaths at hands of U.S. troops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		An Iraqi police colonel signed the report, which was based on communications from local police.
		This is a translation of the Iraqi police report obtained by Knight Ridder, including accounts of events not related to the Ishaqi raid.
		At 230 of 15/3/2006, according to the telegram (report) of the Ishaqi police directorate, American forces used helicopters to drop troops on the house of Faiz Harat Khalaf situated in the Abu Sifa village of the Ishaqi district.
	www.realcities.com /mld/krwashington/14138980.htm (1264 words)

	Dozens of Iraqi Police Missing After Ambush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Baghdad, Iraq - Dozens of Iraqi police officers caught in a deadly ambush north of Baghdad on Thursday were still missing on Saturday, and their colleagues feared that some had been captured by insurgents or killed, police officials said.
		The American military command said 9 police officers were killed and 7 wounded in the attack, which began after nightfall as a convoy of more than 100 police officers was returning to Najaf from an American base in Taji, a trip of about 110 miles.
		The Iraqi police, accompanied by an American military police unit for protection, had gone to Taji to retrieve 10 vehicles from the Americans, the authorities said.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/041606Y.shtml (932 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. study: Insurgents infiltrate Iraq police - Jul 25, 2005
		The Bush administration has said getting Iraqi police properly trained is one of the key components in eventually bringing U.S. troops home, although the administration has refused to put a timetable on when that might occur.
		On Monday, two police officers were among 14 Iraqis killed in two separate suicide car bombings in the country's capital, police officials and the Ministry of Defense reported.
		Later, a suicide car bomb killed two police officers and wounded 11 at an Iraqi police commando checkpoint in the west-central part of the city, said an emergency police official.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/07/25/iraq.police/index.html (794 words)

	The Iraqi Police
		Iraqi Police Day is a new holiday in Iraq that was established to both recognize the sacrifices of the Iraqi police in building a new democratic society and celebrate creation of the new Iraqi Police Service.
		Along with the new equipment and facilities, the Iraqi police are now receiving specialized human rights training so that in the new Iraq they will serve and protect the people while respecting their rights.
		The Iraqi Ministry of Justice is responsible for prisons, land records, training of judges, and publication of the legal gazette, by which laws become official and known to the public.
	www.state.gov /p/nea/rls/rm/2006/58971.htm (975 words)

	Iraqi Police Service (IPS)
		The Iraqi police is also tasked with assisting Coalition Forces on raids, though it is not responsible for terrorist or military crimes investigation.
		Many Iraqi Police Service (IPS) officers and Facility Protection Service (FPS) officers were honored by commanders of the 1st Armored Division and a representative of the Ministry of the Interior 29-30 October 2003 at the Iraqi Forum.
		As a result, while the IPS was believed to be standing at a 91,000 strength as of May 2004, revised numbers put the number of Iraqi police officers closer to 40,000.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/iraq/ips.htm (485 words)

	Iraqi police defy danger
		Iraq's fledgling police force is considered the cornerstone for defeating the criminal gangs, the political insurgency and bands of terrorists that penetrate deep into the country's neighborhoods.
		Yet the constant threats have not been enough to stop the post-Saddam police force - estimated to be between 60,000 and 90,000, depending on which official is speaking - from patrolling the streets.
		Iraqi police have been criticized for their inability to hold their own against insurgents armed with armor-piercing bullets and rocket-propelled grenades.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2005/050223-iraq-police.htm (1234 words)

	Women Join Iraqi Police
		Although women throughout Iraq have been given the right to vote and are accepted in the army and police academies, the city of Irbil was the first city to allow women to hold positions of power.
		Iraqi Police Lt. Narseed, is one of the first female officers in the city.
		She wanted to be a police officer at a very young age but thought that the career field would not be open within her lifetime.
	nyjtimes.com /cover/06-27-06/WomenJoinIraqiPolice.htm (1064 words)

	Iraq Coalition Casualties
		Police ordered a curfew Tuesday in Shiite holy city of Karbala and told more than 1 million pilgrims to leave after two days of violence claimed at least 27 lives during a religious festival.
		The Iraqi Ministry of Education has warned of the possible low attendance of pupils at schools in the coming year, saying it expects at least a 15 percent drop compared to previous years.
		Police said they found the bodies of three people shot and tortured near the town of Qaim, 500 km (300 miles) west of Baghdad.
	icasualties.org /oif (1564 words)

	Army Times - Iraqi police cause concern
		The Iraqi army and police, along with smaller forces such as the border patrol, are crucial to the Bush administration’s plan for reducing U.S. troop levels from 133,000 to perhaps 100,000 or fewer by the end of this election year.
		Yet the administration must assess how ready the Iraqis are to handle the volatile mix of sectarian violence, insurgent attacks and weak institutional support for the Army and police.
		There have been well-documented cases of Iraqi soldiers and police fleeing in the face of insurgent opposition, and of infiltration of the forces by insurgents.
	www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1800916.php (686 words)

	USATODAY.com - Attacks on Iraqi police increase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Police, who are often outgunned by insurgents, make easy targets for guerrillas who want to attack Iraqis cooperating with the coalition.
		Mark Kimmitt, the military's deputy director of operations, described the increasing attacks on police as a matter of concern for the coalition as it grapples to bring order to the region.
		At the Abaya Police Headquarters, where Chai Chan worked as a dispatcher, the situation is so fluid that the station chief, Maj. Ali Abbas, uses blue, Post-it-style notes to affix the names of new top deputies to the precinct flowchart behind his desk.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-03-30-iraq-police-usat_x.htm (706 words)

	U.S. struggles to refill ranks of Iraqi police - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		The Iraqi Interior Ministry "saw what was happening, and they basically fired all the IPs in Anbar Province for their safety," said Joseph D'Amico, a former Alaska state trooper who is the assistant police implementation officer for the marines' Regimental Combat Team 7, which is the major command for this area of Iraq.
		U.S. commanders, who have called this the "year of the Iraqi police," say they are determined to double the force in Anbar to about 11,000.
		They noted that police recruits here are generally drawn from their local Sunni communities, which means they know the area and can readily identify outsiders.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/07/24/news/police.php (1254 words)

	Iraqi Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Council's Badr Organization or Cell has also been linked to the "death squad" murder of gay and transgender Iraqis and as a result many Iraqi women and homosexuals are fearful of appearing in public as the Badr is enforing religious law [2].
		Iraqi police and foreign troops also seen to been ignoring the actions taken by the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq's "Badr Organization" to engage in death marches against Iraqi gay and transgender citizens.
		It's is also the case that groups infiltrating the Iraqi police have stolen uniforms and carried out kidnappings and killings whilst dressed as police.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_Police (1846 words)

	Gunmen storm Iraqi police station
		Suspected insurgents killed at least 17 police officers and freed 33 prisoners during a daybreak attack on a police station in Iraq on Tuesday, police said.
		Police said more than 20 gunmen in five civilian cars arrived at dawn at the station in the city of Muqdadiyah, north of Baghdad.
		At least 17 police officers and a guard at a neighbouring courthouse were killed in the fighting.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2006/03/21/iraq-police-station-assault.html (1174 words)

	Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Iraqi Intervention Forces: "the highly-trained counter-insurgency element of the Iraqi Army." [6]
		The Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, in charge of internal security, has about 21,000 members and is planned to reach 92,000.
		Of the nearly 29,000 police officers who have been trained since then, over 12,000 were former police who underwent three-week transition course training and over 16,000 were new recruits who underwent eight-week basic training.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=New_Iraqi_army (2430 words)

	ABC News: Iraq Police: No Developments on Carroll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq Feb 26, 2006 (AP)— Iraqi police are stepping up the search for kidnapped U.S. journalist Jill Carroll but report no new developments as the deadline set by her captors for the U.S. to meet their demands draws near.
		On Sunday, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said an extensive search was underway for Carroll but had so far failed to find her.
		Since Wednesday, Iraqi security officials have been preoccupied with the grave security crisis that erupted when two bombs destroyed the golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, which is revered by Shiite Muslims.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1663820 (360 words)

	Stars and Stripes: Focus on Iraqi police shifts to quality
		Iraqi police often are on the front line fighting insurgents, and being pistol proficient alone isn’t enough, so they also get training on AK-47s.
		U.S. and Iraqi military and governmental officials are negotiating with NATO and Italian government officials to broker for a force of carabinieri to train Iraq’s National Police.
		The police drop-out rate remains higher than desired, and the public is leery of sectarian militias and insurgent infiltrators.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=45344 (812 words)

	Making 'To Serve and Protect' the Motto of the Post-Saddam Iraqi Police
		Up to now, Iraqis seeking police assistance have been going to the Americans with their complaints, according to a translator for the 1st Cavalry Division.
		But something basic is still missing: “We need to instill the moral, ethical and professional characteristics of a police department,” said Kornegay, who has been assigned to training Iraqi police.
		Kornegay hopes that what the staff is trying to teach the Iraqis will make a big difference to the police force — and to Iraq as a whole.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,SS_083104_Police,00.html (737 words)

	Open Source » Blog Archive » The Iraqi Police
		A strong Iraqi police force is one of the stated “pillars” of the Bush Administration’s Iraq strategy.
		Though the two occupations are different in many ways, if Christopher Aldous (The Police in Occupation Japan) is correct, it would seem that the present administation’s attempts to reform the Iraqi police is again another failure to engineer “democracy” and to understand social and cultural complexity.
		The Iraqi police are much maligned, corrupt, death squads etc and that is true, but the real truth of the matter is that we have allowed the rouge elements to prosper by indifference by politicians and the senior military commanders who get their medals and go home after six months.
	www.radioopensource.org /the-iraqi-police (1694 words)

	CNN.com - Insurgents kill 23 Iraqi police, troops - Dec 28, 2004
		Six miles south of Baquba, a suicide car bomber targeted Iraqi national guard troops at a traffic circle as they were working on the aftermath of an earlier roadside bombing, the U.S. military said.
		In Babil province, south of Baghdad, Iraqi police and Polish soldiers stopped five vehicles carrying parts of artillery shells and grenades, according to a statement Tuesday evening from the multinational division.
		Al-Zarqawi is blamed for spearheading dozens of attacks against U.S. and Iraqi troops and for the kidnappings and beheadings of several foreign hostages, including the slayings of two Americans and a Briton kidnapped in September.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/12/28/iraq.main/index.html (809 words)

	KOMOradio.com - Seattle, Washington - National & World News - For Iraqi police officers, just staying alive is a ...
		U.S. troops are training and equipping the Iraqi army and local police forces across the country in hopes they will one day be able to keep the streets safe on their own, but hundreds of officers have been killed during those efforts.
		Lippo and other Marines assigned to train and protect the Fallujah police have their own command post in the police station, which is surrounded by blast walls and barbed wire and has sandbags piled high enough to block second-floor windows.
		Their faces covered and bodies bundled in flak jackets and Kevlar helmets, Iraqi officers on patrol move in groups of at least three to make it tougher for kidnappers and killers to strike.
	www.komoradio.com /news/national/4745341.html (1045 words)

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