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Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) Douglas Brand, of South Yorkshire Police travelled to Iraq on 4 July to act as senior mentor to the Iraqi chief of Baghdad Police.

He has been joined by Assistant Chief Constable Stephen White, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, who will work as senior police adviser in Basra.

The Foreign Office said that both were selected for their knowledge of reform and retraining in police services.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the deployment was a further example of "the UK delivering on our promise to help Iraqis build for themselves a stable, free and prosperous Iraq".

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