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To:
Douglas Brand
SUBJECT: IRAQ POLICE REFORM: UK PRIORITIES
1. Now that you have been at post four weeks, I thought it would be useful to review UK priorities for the reform of the Irqi police, and your rote in taking these priorities forward.
Priurities
• The CPA Strateg)
2. We still need snore delail from the Interior Ministry on its policing strategy and its implementation plan. The UK and other states will be reluctant to engage in the refon al the Iraqi police service unless we are shown that there is a clear strategy, including i stucture and concup of operations, under which seconded personnel would operate and.
crucially, a timetahle.
3. We ane concerned here that although training is under way, and ideas exist for the exccution of luther training. the current approach still appears to be ad hoc. El the CPA Interior ministry is genuinely considcung the deploymcnt of a significant mentoring mission, it will urgently need to address these issues and Inake its case to a wider audience. We fully appreciate the constraints of the opcrating enviroument, but we are keen to keep up momcatum and huild on progress made.
4. Specifie issues on which we need urgem clarification are:
- the overarching strategy, including detailed benchmarks and objectives for progress:
Standard Opersting Procedures (SOPS):
• a generie agreement under which countries can contribute to the CPA:
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• Ueployment of UK contingent G. As you know, we are taking action to ensure that the UK. is it a position to deploy a contingent of up to 100 police officers to Iraq (and possibly Hungary) once the conditions in theatre allow. This raises a number of questions. For cample: what would the toles of these officers be, where would they he located, and if trainers, what coursc would they' (main? Without confirmation of strategy and objcelives for police reform, we will not be i able to commit officers to theatre,
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[signed)
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