Very cool story here about the progress being made putting Iraqis back in charge of policing themselves.
The first graduates now serve as instructors with help from the Army MPs. The students learn unarmed self-defense, search techniques, ethics, crime scene protocol and other basic police skills.
The new force wants to clean up the streets as well as improve the pre-war taut relationship between community and police.
The former police force was rife with corruption, Weber said. So it took time convincing people the new police were honest. The quality of applicants improved as the community gained confidence in the force “once they found out we wanted to get rid of the corruption,” Weber said.
“It’ll serve its purpose if we don’t put bad police officers back on the streets.”
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