Photo By Sgt. Scott Wolfe | Maj. Gen. Ali Hadi Hussein al-Yaseri, commander of all Iraqi patrol police in Baghdad...... read more read more
By Staff Sgt. Scott Wolfe
Multi-National Division - Baghdad
BAGHDAD – Soldiers have seen it before: T-wall barriers form the perimeter, a raised tent for offices, portable bathrooms, concrete guard towers at the corners, and vehicles in the yard.
These words describe many U.S military compounds throughout Iraq, but this time the gray-walled complex belongs to someone else: Iraqi police in the Hurriyah neighborhood in the Kadamiyah District of Baghdad on July 16.
Maj. Gen. Ali Hadi Hussein al-Yaseri, the commander of all Iraqi patrol police in Baghdad province, spoke at the opening ceremony of Hurriyah's new Iraqi police station and said that this new location will enable the police to expand their presence to more remote areas of the city. He exhorted the new commander and personnel of the precinct to shy away from the problems that have plagued the reputation of the IP and thanked all those who helped put the facility together. Included in his thanks were the local sheiks, coalition forces and all those policemen who had given their lives to bring law and order to Iraq.
"Do not let their lost lives be in vain," he said.
The newly opened station is a satellite of the local police precinct in Hurriyah. In fact, many of the police who staff the local station were based in the district precinct.
Staff Sgt. Joseph Reinsburrow, a Towanda, Penn., native, and team leader with the 64th Military Police Company, 716th MP Battalion, 18th MP Brigade, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, explained that the local station is temporary and will only last until a permanent structure can be built. The new station was needed to help the areas that are not around the Hurriyah neighborhood precinct, he said.
"It's a big place and they needed to be out around the people more, with patrols and checkpoints," said Reinsburrow.
This new precinct was brought about to do just that.
Reinsburrow and the 64th MP Co. are currently working alongside the 978th MP Co., which is scheduled to replace them in the near future.
1st Lt. Naomi Woods, a native of Lafayette, La., serving with the incoming 978th MP Co., says that the new IP station's personnel will be conducting joint checkpoints and patrols with her platoon until they are more familiar with the new area and duties.
The Iraqi police are doing much more now than in the beginning of his rotation to Iraq, said Reinsburrow.
| Date Taken: | 07.18.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 07.18.2008 16:02 |
| Story ID: | 21630 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
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