U.S. Marines working round-the-clock to reinforce new police force [Image 10 of 10]

AL QA'IM, IRAQ

06.28.2006

Photo by Spc. Antonio Rosas 

I Marine Expeditionary Force

More than 300 local Iraqis from Euphrates River towns near the Iraqi-Syrian border lined up at the Marines' outpost in hopes of becoming policemen in one of Iraq's newest police districts June 26, 2006, during a police recruitment drive in Qa'im, Iraq. Despite several attacks on the police force in the nearby city of Husaybah, a border city of about 50,000 people, Maj. Robert C. Marshall, the military transition team officer-in-charge says the Iraqis are willing to serve because a cop's monthly salary is a lot of money for the average Iraqi - around $100 a month. The push for a police force in the region near the border came after months of urging from the local tribal sheikhs who are eager to see a police force restored with men from their tribes, according to the local police transition team - a group of U.S service members who train, mentor and develop local police forces. The transition team is working on equipping the one of the region's newest police forces - in Karabilah, a city of about 30,000 citizens - with weapons, flak vests, uniforms and furniture so that the Iraqis can live and work out of their police station. (Photo by Cpl. Antonio Rosas)

• Date Taken: 06.28.2006
• Date Posted: 07.06.2006 13:15
• Photo ID: 25220
• Resolution: 1200x616
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• Location: AL QA'IM, IQ