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Article: 400 NEW IRAQI POLICE OFFICERS TO BOOST SECURITY IN IRAQ-SYRIA BORDER REGION
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 13, 2006
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The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story:
Four hundred newly-trained police officers are slated to join the 1,000-man police force currently providing security for the Iraq-Syria border region of Al Qa'im in western Al Anbar, Iraq.
The new police officers were recruited just three months ago and recently completed 10 weeks of police academy training in one of two academies in Jordan or Baghdad.
Just four months ago, the region of about 170,000, established a police force for the first time in three years.
With no police force in the region, the brunt of security was provided by Iraqi soldiers and Marines from the southern California-based 1st Battalion, 7th Marine ...