Briefing note iraq police training update 18 september

head of the Kosovo Police Academy (Bennett). • Iraqrep and Washington report that there is, as yet, no wider CPA policing framework. DCC Brand is confident that training can, for now, be carried forward without this. The CPA plan is for the first police course in Jordan to begin around 12 December, drawn from police trainees already under training at the start of the conflict. We have suggested that this should be brought forward to allow training to begin immediately after the end of Ramadan (27 October to 26 November). We do not believe effective an effective training course could be provided during Ramadan. Iraqrep has highlighted the importance of keeping the project under the CPA umbrella. Support for DCC Brand • We have agreed with MoD Police that six officers (a Chief Inspector, an Inspector and four junior ranks) can be deployed quickly to provide the support requested by Brand to implement the Jordan police training programme. We expect these officers to arrive in Baghdad around 29 September. A UK Superintendent is already in place in Baghdad. Further staff can be made available if requested by Brand. A pressing challenge will be the establishment of an effective recruitment process to identify, process and transport 35,000 trainees. CPA estimate that this will initially require 25 police advisers to work alongside Iraqi police officers in carrying out recruitment. We think the bulk of these will need to come from a US contractor (eg Dyncorp). Project office in Jordan • Brand and McManaway will return to Amman during the week beginning 22 September to agree an MoU with the Jordanians to allow contractors to begin work on developing the training facilities. The FCO police adviser and a Metropolitan Police training expert will also be in Amman to support the negotiations. • We have agreed with ACPO that a team of police training experts will deploy to Amman in early October to help CPA manage the Jordan end of the project and provide the nucleus of the UK contribution to the training school. DECLASSIFIED • The RPTA is being expanded to accommodate larger courses. This work will be completed by early December. We have agreed with ACPO that an extra UK 20 police trainers will be sent to Basra once the facility is ready to use them. 3. Police leadership training • We are in discussion with CENTREX (Police staff college at Bramshill) on the provision of a four week leadership course for around 40 senior Iraqi police. Provisional planning is for a course in November. 4. Other police issues • Brand has requested four additional officers to work with the US military in a Joint Command Cell being set up in Baghdad to avoid 'friendly fire' incidents. We are approaching the Police Service of Northern Ireland, as a potential source of officers with the right civ-mil experience. • Brand has also suggested that UK should provide advisers to the regional police training academies in Kirkuk and Mosul. We think that Jordan and Basra are more urgent priorities for now (but would not rule out the possibility for the longer term). • The US State Department estimate the potential cost of establishing the Iraqi police at $1 billion. Initial State Department allocations of $25 million have already been spent. State are concerned that insufficient US resources will be available and will be lobbying other donors. We will need to consider whether to offer financial as well as human resources. Iraq Police Training Project Team FCO 18 September 2003 DECLASSIFIED Bramshill MDP Officers FCO/CivPol team Course SEPTEMBER deploy to Baghdad support CPA team agreed for 40 to support Brand agreeing MOU in senior Iraqi with police Amman Police development UK led UK Civ Pol project multinational Sourcing team deploy to training effort Senior Iraqi Amman OCTOBER begins at Regional Officers for Police Training course; Academy (Basra) developing syllabus - Selection and --— - preparation of UK AN trainers Construction and Development of facilities at preparation of RAMA training base and Regional Police syllabus; Training NOVEMBER Four Week Academy (Basra) recruitment and Leadership processing of Iraqi RAMADAY course for police applicants senior Iraqi Police begins Additional UK trainers deploy to CPA training starts Regional Police in Jordan using Training DECEMBER multinational Academy (Basra) trainers (inc. UK) DECLASSIFIED OLCLASSIFED Iraq / UK Policing Structure THEATRE LONDON UK Iraq Rep CPA Bremer Ad Hoc Ministerial Sir Jeremy Greenstock Group - Sheinwald Group Police Adviser ACPO Chief Deputy Chief Constable Paul Constable Brand Kernoghan Iraq Policing Project Management Team Police overseas / deployment policy Head IPU (Security) Home Office Police Resources Unit - Sue - (UNpolicing Advisor T Hay 6 MOD Police Head, SSR Strategy Officers Policy and operations Staff Support / relating to Iraqi Police MOD Police - Chief Training / manning Recruitment Constable Lloyd Clarke Manpower providers Regional Police Training Academy CENTREX (Basra) Amman Training England & Wales Project Team - 3 (Bramshill) Police Forces Bob Taylor UK Officers from Manpower providers Leadership Training Mid Oct. - Deputy Chief Nucleus of Constable Stephen eventual White contribution of 80 PSNI - Chief British Officers Constable Hugh Orde - JCC Officers Multinational training Officers DEMASSION