Photo By Luis Delgadillo | Capt. Lauren Glaze, provost marshal for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry...... read more read more
Sgt. Luis Delgadillo
2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div.
FOB KALSU, Iraq – Plans to open the first police station in Arab Jabour commenced with meetings held at the Mahmudiyah Iraqi Police Headquarters and Forward Operating Base Falcon Nov.1.
Though the police station is still months from establishment, the first steps were taken in Mahmudiyah, when Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, out of Fort Stewart, Ga., and the 153rd Military Police Company, out of Delaware City, Del., met with Mahmudiyah's District Iraqi Police Commander, Brig. Gen. Abbed.
Capt. Lauren Glaze, provost marshal, 2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., and 1st Lt. Daniel A. Deflaviis, platoon leader for 3rd platoon, 153rd MP Co., worked with Abbed to finalize the purchase of a land deed and to request a recruitment drive in Arab Jabour.
The site of the future police station in Arab Jabour sits on land donated by Concerned Local Citizens.
Abbed is assisting Glaze, from Woodbridge, Va., and Deflaviis, from Wilmington, Del., to expedite transferring the land deed over to the Ministry of Interior in order to begin contracting work for the station's construction.
Abbed was happy to help speed up the process. Abbed said his hope is that the opening of the police station in Arab Jabour will promote peace and security in the area.
Though his jurisdiction does not include Arab Jabour, Abbed said if people know police are there to help, they will be proactive in their own neighborhoods. He said if people perceive the police as indifferent, it creates the potential for more criminal activity.
Learning that the deed paperwork was just three days away from being finalized, Glaze and Deflaviis left Mahmudiyah and headed to FOB Falcon where they met the man who will be responsible for the Arab Jabour police station, Col. Fatel, Al Rashid district commander.
Glaze explained to Fatel that before work can begin on the site in Arab Jabour, 2nd BCT leaders need to find out if the Ministry of Interior will hold an Iraqi police recruitment drive in Arab Jabour.
Fatel said that he would assist in requesting the recruitment drive, adding that the police station will bring the total of planned police stations in his district to six.
Deflaviis said the opening of a police station in Arab Jabour would add 229 jobs to the local economy and that 2nd BCT leaders have already identified 304 potential candidates.
The pool of potential candidates would come from Arab Jabour and Al Buaytha, an area north of Patrol Base Murray along the Tigris River.
| Date Taken: | 11.03.2007 |
| Date Posted: | 11.05.2007 16:30 |
| Story ID: | 13667 |
| Location: | ISKANDARIYAH, IQ |
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