July 28, 2003
Release Number: 03-07-84

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SECURITY TOPS HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) continue to graduate police officers from academies throughout the Mosul area while 1st Armored Division soldiers are training the Iraqi Police Services in modern policing techniques.

The 101st AAD’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, nicknamed the “Rakassans,” graduated 60 police officers July 26 from their academy in Sinjar. The new police officers will serve as future cadre for the academy. New classes are scheduled to start this week.

Soldiers from the 101st AAD have also started training a new class of officers for the Iraqi Facility Protection Security Force. The FPSF provides security at power plants, water treatment plants and at other infrastructure locations. The long-term goal of the FPSF is to take over the duties of American soldiers and Iraqi police who currently guard key sites.

Soldiers from the 101st AAD have also started a three-day Correctional Officer Course. The course is being held at the Temporary Juvenile Prison near Mosul. Although course content between the various academies varies, classes basically include instruction in security duties and responsibilities, medical first aid, apprehension techniques, professionalism and ethics, weapons safety and rifle marksmanship.

Military Police from the 1st AD began training the second class of Iraqi police officers July 26 as part of the Training Integration Program in Baghdad. The program is designed to introduce modern policing techniques to the IPS. The 1st AD soldiers are teaching IPS officers about crime scene investigation, application of citizens’ rights, appropriate use of force and level of response and police response to incidents and complaints.

The current class includes 200 IPS officers. Once the program is fully operational more than 4,000 Iraqi police will have completed the training.


July 28, 2003
Release Number: 03-07-85

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

COALITION FORCES CONTINUE PATROLS

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces continued to conduct patrols and raids throughout Iraq, removing former regime loyalist, in support of the effort to create a secure environment.

The 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) detained two former regime loyalist brothers confiscating $100,000 to $200,000, 30-40 million Iraqi Dinar and three AK-47s in the process.

While conducting a routine patrol, a unit of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment discovered large caliber ammunition, consisting of several primers and 130 mm rounds, at a house in the area. Seven individuals were detained for questioning. Third ACR engineers destroyed the ammunition.

Military Police of the 4th Infantry Division confiscated a weapons cache, consisting of 48 57 mm anti-aircraft rounds, in Samarra on July 27. An Iraqi man was detained for questioning.

Two high-ranking former regime loyalists were detained in separate raids on July 26. 1st Armored Division detained a former colonel in the Babil area. The 101st AD detained a high-ranking individual in Irbil.

A 1st Marine Expeditionary Force weapons company discovered an incomplete assembled improvised explosive device consisting of a 120 mm round with a grenade attached to it. The IED was located near a bridge on a heavily traveled road in the Al Hillah area. An explosive ordnance disposal team was dispatched to dispose of the IED.

Also in the Al Hillah area, Iraqi Facility Protection Service guards prevented armed thieves from entering the bus assembly plant by engaging them with small arms fire.

In the last 24 hours, coalition forces conducted 29 raids, 1,096 day patrols and 889 night patrols and conducted 122 day patrols and 139 night patrols jointly with Iraqi police. Iraqi Police conducted 13 day patrols and 14 night patrols.

The total raids and patrols resulted in 241 arrests for various criminal activities including four for murder, one for kidnapping, 19 for car jacking, six for aggravated assault, 16 for burglary and 10 for looting.