15.1 | Civilian personnel

• The FCO and DFID deployed a combined average of 100 civilians (including

DFID contractors, but excluding police, security contractors and officials from

other government departments) for post‑conflict reconstruction and the UK’s

bilateral representation in Iraq.

• There were two peaks in DFID’s contribution to reconstruction:

{{53 personnel from March to June 2004, towards the end of the CPA period;

and

{{88 personnel in June 2005.

• The number of DFID personnel fell significantly in the face of deteriorating

security in late 2006.

• The number of FCO staff deployed to Iraq reached 50 towards the end of the

CPA period and climbed to 75 in mid‑2009.

Figure 1: Civilians deployed to Iraq by the FCO,569 DFID570 and the MOD,571 2003‑2009

600

500

400

300

200

100

0

FCO deployment

DFID deployment

Civilians deployed by MOD under Op TELIC

879.  Table 3 shows estimates of the number of UK police officers deployed in Iraq on

selected dates between July 2003 and April 2009 for which data are available.572

880.  Section 12.1 also includes data on the number of UK police officers deployed to

train Iraqi police at the police training facility in Jordan.

569  Letter FCO to Iraq Inquiry, 27 May 2011, ‘Iraq Inquiry – Role of Civilians in Iraq’ attaching Table,

[untitled]; Letter Fraser to Aldred, 22 July 2013, ‘Iraq Inquiry: Deployment of Civilian Personnel: Statistics,

Annex B – Iraq: FCO Staff in post on the last day of each quarter, 2003‑04 to 2009‑10’.

570  Letter Lowcock to Aldred, 24 June 2013, [untitled] attaching Table, [untitled].

571  Letter Ministry of Defence to Iraq Inquiry, 31 May 2013, ‘Civilian Roles in Iraq’.

572  This is an edited version of Table 6 in Section 12.1. Sources are explained in Section 12.1.

393