Iraqi police officers provide crowd control at an Iraqi police recruiting drive held in Qa'im, Iraq, where 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 June 29, 2006. 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: | 25217 |
Resolution: | 1200x800 |
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Location: | AL QA'IM, IQ |
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