12.1 |
Security Sector Reform
972.
At the meeting
of DOP(I) on 12 October, the Committee discussed the need
“to
do more to
speed up the development of police” but considered that “the plan
for ISF
development
that was in place was largely sound”.908
973.
The Committee
agreed that the MOD would take the lead on “police issues in
Iraq”
as “the
Iraqi policing situation called for a para‑military, rather than a
civilian, style of
policing”.
974.
Although the
MOD would take responsibility for police issues, the FCO
continued
to
administer the police secondments to Iraq and to manage the
contract with
975.
In his
evidence to the Inquiry, Lt Gen Dutton commented on the move
of
responsibility
for policing to the MOD:
“I didn’t
get the impression that it had a great deal of effect at all,
because what did
it actually
mean? On the ground it didn’t really mean anything; it meant that
one
particular
Secretary of State felt he was now responsible for the police as
well … but
it didn’t
produce more resources, it didn’t, to my mind, sort out the
structural problem
we have …
about being able to train those sorts of
policemen.”910
976.
On 31 October,
an MOD paper about the reform of the IPS described the
number
of UK
civilian personnel devoted to policing.911
It totalled
over 200 and comprised:
•
105 UK
police officers funded through the [FCO’s] Peacekeeping Fund at a
cost
of £3.3m
for financial year 2005/06:
{{61 UK
staff based in Jordan, delivering eight‑week Basic Recruit
Training;
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serving and retired UK police officers in MND(SE) mentoring,
liaising
and
conducting specialist training courses with the Iraqi police;
and
{{18
serving and retired UK police officers in Baghdad, including
the
UK Chief
Police Adviser focusing on: IPS development, planning
and
mentoring
the Police Minister, forensics, criminal intelligence, training
at
the staff
officer college.
•
106 UK
International Police Advisers provided by ArmorGroup, funded by
the
GCPP
(£11.1m for financial year 2005/06) and by the Dutch and
Japanese
governments;
five of those contractors were based in Baghdad and
the
remainder
in MND(SE), acting as advisers, mentors (including to each
Provincial
Chief of
Police in MND(SE)) and trainers.
908
Minutes, 12
October 2005, DOP(I) meeting.
909
Letter
Howard to Asquith, 5 January 2006, [untitled].
910
Public
hearing, 12 July 2010, page 39.
911
Paper MOD,
31 October 2005, ‘Iraq – UK Policy for Police Security Sector
Reform (SSR)’.
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