Iraqi police reflects ethnic makeup of Iraq
"We recruit policemen from the communities from which they will serve. And so, the policemen reflect the populations that they come from. And so, where population is mixed, you have a mixed police force. Where population is more Sunni, you have more Sunnis. Where a population is more Shi'a, you have more Shi'as. . . . National policemen come from all over Iraq. And right now, they do reflect the population of Iraq. They're about 70, 75% Shi'a and about 25% Sunni," said Major General Joseph Peterson "who is the man in charge of the effort on the ground in Iraq to train the Iraqi police."
Asked why the violence in Iraq has "gotten worse" despite an increase in the Iraqi Army and police, General Peterson said that "some things take time" and that the police were just "rookies." He also said that they were still trying to build "quality" and "strength in performance" in the police and continuing "to regenerate the force that's necessary to address attrition." [1]
General Peterson said that his Civilian Police Assistance Training Team "is about 99 percent complete on its mission of training approximately 188,000 security forces, and those forces right now are about 82 percent equipped. We expect to exceed this goal by about 10,000 by year's end.
The Iraqi police forces right now, for example -- we will have trained the 135,000th Iraqi policeman by the middle of this month. It's all a very good success story, but this is really about putting quantity, putting the Iraqi policeman on the street with his equipment."
General Peterson also said that "since September of 2004, we've lost over 12,000 policemen to casualties; about 4,000 of that have been killed." [2]
sources
[1] ABC News. ABC News Now/Special Report #5. (Maj. Gen. Joseph Peterson interview by Jonathan Karl). October 6, 2006.
[2] The Department of Defense. DoD Press Briefing with Maj. Gen. Joseph Peterson from the Pentagon. October 06, 2006.
posted: friday, october 6, 2006, 9:58 PM ET
update: friday, october 8, 2006, 3:46 AM ET
Asked why the violence in Iraq has "gotten worse" despite an increase in the Iraqi Army and police, General Peterson said that "some things take time" and that the police were just "rookies." He also said that they were still trying to build "quality" and "strength in performance" in the police and continuing "to regenerate the force that's necessary to address attrition." [1]
General Peterson said that his Civilian Police Assistance Training Team "is about 99 percent complete on its mission of training approximately 188,000 security forces, and those forces right now are about 82 percent equipped. We expect to exceed this goal by about 10,000 by year's end.
The Iraqi police forces right now, for example -- we will have trained the 135,000th Iraqi policeman by the middle of this month. It's all a very good success story, but this is really about putting quantity, putting the Iraqi policeman on the street with his equipment."
General Peterson also said that "since September of 2004, we've lost over 12,000 policemen to casualties; about 4,000 of that have been killed." [2]
sources
[1] ABC News. ABC News Now/Special Report #5. (Maj. Gen. Joseph Peterson interview by Jonathan Karl). October 6, 2006.
[2] The Department of Defense. DoD Press Briefing with Maj. Gen. Joseph Peterson from the Pentagon. October 06, 2006.
posted: friday, october 6, 2006, 9:58 PM ET
update: friday, october 8, 2006, 3:46 AM ET
posted by eric at 8:51 PM
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