Baghdad police learning the ropes

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Baghdad police officers practice a vehicle stop after a lesson from U.S. police trainers. U.S. troops say officers in the capital still need to learn the basics of police work.


Baghdad police learning the ropes
By Heath Druzin, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, December 6, 2008

BAGHDAD — As the U.S. military has shifted more responsibility for security in the capital to the Iraqis, insurgents have responded by focusing their attacks on local police.

But the Iraqi security forces are still learning the basics of police work and have difficulty working on their own.

After teaching a group of Iraqi National Police officers at a Baghdad Station how to properly search a car, Air Force Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Rhodes, asked if there are any questions.

"When do we get our badges?" one police officer asked.

Rhodes and his teaching partner, Dennis Clark, tried to get their students back to the subject at hand.


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