Iraq's interior ministry refusing to deploy US-trained police

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1746233,00.html


Plans for non-sectarian force under threat
· Rice insists that power of militias must be curbed


Iraq's interior ministry is refusing to deploy thousands of police recruits who have been trained by the US and the UK and is hiring its own men and putting them on the streets, according to western security advisers.

The move is frustrating US and British efforts to build up a non-sectarian Iraqi police force which would not be infiltrated by partisan militias.

The disclosure highlights growing US and British concern about the role of militias in sectarian killings, and their links to senior Iraqi politicians. "You can't have in a democracy various groups with arms - you have to have the state with a monopoly on power," Condoleeza Rice, the US secretary of state, said at the end of her two-day visit to Baghdad yesterday.

"We have sent very, very strong messages repeatedly, and not just on this visit, that one of the first things ... is that there is going to be a reining in of the militias... It's got to be one of the highest priorities."
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the reason:

Senior ministry officials say they refuse to deploy the graduates because they have no control over the CPATT's selection process.
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