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The Iraqi Police (IP) is the uniformed police force responsible for the enforcement of civil law in Iraq. Its organisation, structure and recruitment were guided by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq , and it is commanded by the reformed Iraqi Ministry of the Interior .
Iraqi Federal Police. The Federal Police (FP), sometimes called the National Police, is a gendarmerie-type paramilitary force designed to bridge the gap between the local police and the army. This allows the MOI to project power across provinces and maintain law and order, while an effective community police is developed.
Ali Al-Ghurairi (Arabic: علي الغريري) is an Iraqi army general, commanding general, and chief of police, who currently serves as Director-General Commander of Police of the capital Baghdad. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has a jurist JD degree in law.
Members of the Brigade were reportedly paid as much as 700,000 Iraqi dinars, or $534, per month; a large sum in Iraqi terms. [7] Many of the units personnel were members of the Badr Brigade. [8] The Special Police Commando units later formed under the Dawa and SCIRI transitional government in 2005 were based on the model provided by the Wolf ...
At this time the International Police was deployed to Iraq. This is a functional organization made up of police officers from all over the world, serving mostly under the direction of the United Nations, to help train, recruit, and field police forces in war torn countries. The force is usually deployed into a war torn country initially acting ...
The Al Hillah bombing killed 127 people, chiefly men lining up to join the Iraqi police forces, at the recruiting centre on February 28, 2005 in Al Hillah, Iraq.. The bombing caused a worsening of Iraqi-Jordanian diplomatic relations after it was learned that suicide bomber, Raed Mansour al-Banna, had come from Jordan.
On November 11, the insurgents had captured one police station and destroyed two more. They broke into the stations' armories and distributed the weapons and flak jackets they could find. The Iraqi police force was overrun in a matter of hours, scattering and deserting from the street fighting. Security in the city almost completely broke down.
Defense of the Karbala City Hall, [a] also known as the Battle of the City Hall, [b] was a series of fights that took place between 3 and 6 April 2004, between soldiers of Mahdi Army, attacking the city hall of Karbala, Iraq, and defending it Polish and Bulgarian soldiers of the Multinational Division Central-South, together with the several police officers of Iraqi Police.