U.S. advisors have role in assisting the Iraqi ministry of interior with logistics conference to account for all equipment in all provinces.
The ministry of interior's Assistant Deputy Minister for Infrastructure, Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abdulameer Abaas Ali, hosted the MoI Information Center Symposium to gather information from provinces across Iraq to determine needs and capabilities.
The purpose of the conference was to outbrief a month-long data call from provinces and MoI separate commands. This data call included; status on provinces implementing automation capabilities by establishing their own information centers, detailed reports and information on vehicles, weapons, equipment, supplies and information on arrests made in each province.
The conference was attended by federal police forces from all provinces in Iraq and each province was given the opportunity to speak to the group about their equipment, automation and arrest records. In addition to the many police logistics officers, also in attendance was the Senior Deputy Minister Adnan Al-Assadi, all director generals, provincial chiefs of police and commanders of the FP and DBE. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Richard Rowe, Iraq Training and Advisory Mission commander, represented U.S. forces who assisted with the conference.
The Iraqi ministry of interior has never had a full accounting of the equipment on hand. Over the years, the coalition and the government of Iraq have distributed almost $2 billion worth of items without a centralized record at the MoI. This full accounting will better guide the MoI in applying future resources.
ITAM- MoI logistics only played a minor role in providing information to the training teams, translating presentation from Arabic to English and providing some audio-visual equipment for the conference.
Future automation improvements will link subordinate information centers to the MoI Directorate of Infrastructure Information Center. This concept is still in the planning phase and will eliminate the need to have these personnel meet in one location. This will improve efficiency within the logistics center of the MoI.
The conference was a huge success in collecting a significant amount of information and adding it to the central accounting system. With the Security Agreement signed between the U.S. and Iraq being the driving force behind all relationships that the logistics teams have formed, it's good to know that when anyone gives equipment or automation capabilities to the MoI, from now on, it will be accounted for in a much more professional manner.
| Date Taken: | 08.19.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 08.19.2009 02:04 |
| Story ID: | 37676 |
| Location: | IQ |
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