12.1 |
Security Sector Reform
requested
“immediate augmentation of three staff” to support his work in
Baghdad and
drafted
himself some more detailed Terms of Reference. Those included
responsibility for:
•
policing
Baghdad (under Mr Kerik’s policy direction) – an operational
function;
•
developing
an implementation strategy for policing in Baghdad, aimed
at
achieving
transition from military primacy to civil police
primacy;
•
mentoring,
coaching and training the Iraqi Chief of Police for Baghdad
(once
appointed)
to a level that would allow the CPA to hand over authority
and
operational
responsibility;
•
advising
the CPA on international support for policing in Iraq;
and
•
advising
the CPA on the implementation of a strategy for policing in
Iraq.
249.
Former DCC
Brand told the Inquiry that the purpose of the last two objectives
was
to remind
Mr Kerik of his “broader responsibility for the rest of
Iraq”.196
250.
Former DCC
Brand later added that, “with the establishing of the second
chief
officer to
go down there [Basra], I made an early decision, rightly or
wrongly, that I wasn’t
going to
trespass in his [Mr Kerik’s] area, apart from the fact that I
had enough to get on
with in
Baghdad and the rest of Iraq, but also there was a slightly
different set‑up”.197
251.
After
Mr Kerik’s tenure in Iraq ended in early September
2003,198
DCC
Brand
effectively
acted as senior adviser to the MOI “for a couple of
months”199
until
late
October
when a US replacement, Mr Steve Casteel, was brought
in.200
252.
Former DCC
Brand told the Inquiry that, during that period:
“… it was a
busy time and, of course, what got neglected was the police
part.”201
By the end
of June 2003, the CPA had completed a review of the Iraqi justice
sector.202
DFID
officials summarised the conclusions and recommendations of the
report as follows:
•
A holistic
upgrade of legal competence was required. To practise under
the
current
system, lawyers needed only to register and attend a one‑hour
interview.
•
The roles of
key actors in the court system needed clarification and
re‑definition:
specifically,
prosecutors and defence lawyers should be more active and
judges
should
perform a less prosecutorial function.
•
Steps needed
to be taken to reduce the endemic corruption in the legal
system.
196
Public
hearing, 29 June 2010, page 37.
197
Public
hearing, 29 June 2010, page 89.
198
Statement
Brand, 28 June 2010, page 1.
199
Public
hearing, 29 June 2010, page 92.
200
PBS, 30
December 2005, ‘Training
Iraqi Police Forces’.
201
Public
hearing, 29 June 2010, page 93.
202 Annotated
Agenda, 26 June 2003, Ad Hoc Group on Iraq Rehabilitation
meeting.
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