12.1 |
Security Sector Reform
The uplift
in personnel took place as part of the roulement of forces in late
April 2005
(described
later in this Section).
840.
On 5 November
2004, Mr David Hayward, FCO Military Liaison Officer, sent
a
teleletter
to Mr Tom Dodd, Deputy Consul General in Basra, in reply to “a
number of
problems”
Mr Dodd had raised about policing in the
South.803
On the
provision of UK
police
officers, Mr Hayward wrote that:
•
Mr Hugh
Orde, Chief Constable of PSNI, had confirmed his commitment
of
six Chief
Inspectors for Iraq.
•
CC Orde
would extend the current PSNI officer deployments until
replacements
were
available.
•
Nineteen
junior officers in az‑Zubayr would end their tour in December
but
14 officers
were trained and ready to replace them. They were looking
to
recruit
others and had a small reserve capacity of trained officers that
could
be deployed
if necessary.
•
GCPP’s
funding for 40 IPAs had been extended by one month and a bid
to
extend it
for a further six months would be submitted.
841.
A second phase
of the ArmorGroup contract was agreed in early 2005. It
extended
and
expanded the deployment to 68 personnel, including five forensic
experts.804
842.
On 12 January
2005, Major General Jonathon Riley, GOC MND(SE) from
November
2004 until June 2005, reported:
“Although
the work of the International Police Advisers is much trumpeted,
the reality
falls well
short of perception. Responsibilities for various areas of police
reform are
unclear,
and as a result, progress is lagging behind that of the
military.”805
843.
Acting DCC
Colin Smith arrived in Iraq in January 2005 as part of General
Luck’s
Review
team. In his statement to the Inquiry, ACC Smith
wrote:
“On arrival
… there appeared to be a number of competing plans including
SSR
with police
training at az‑Zubayr and in Basra, Maysan and Al Muthanna
and
that ubiquitous
term ‘mentoring’. Civilian contractors, funded by the UK,
largely
worked
under their own direction and command structure. The only
apparent
link to any
pan‑Iraq coalition Strategy was through the US International
Police
803
Teleletter
161 Hayward to Dodd, 5 November 2004, ‘Southern Iraq: Civilian
Policing’.
804
Project Bid
Form, [undated], ‘International Police Advisors: Training,
Mentoring and Monitoring
of the Newly
Trained Iraqi Police Service Officers in MND SE’.
805
Report
Riley, 12 January 2005, ‘GOC MND(SE) – Southern Iraq Update – 12
January 2005’.
806
Statement,
14 June 2010, page 2.
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