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The Report of the Iraq Inquiry
Table 3: UK police officers deployed to Iraq, 2003‑2009
Date
July 2003
October 2003
November 2003
December 2003
January 2004
March 2004
September 2004
October 2004
November 2004
May 2005
October 2005
December 2005
February 2006
April 2007
July 2007
November 2007
February 2008
March 2008 – April 2009
Estimated total in Iraq
4
10
10
34
34
43
43
46
44
47
47
35
33
12
17
11
5
14
The UK civilian deployment during the CPA period, May 2003 to
June 2004
881.  During the CPA period573 the UK deployed:
an average of 220 civilians in support of Op TELIC on any given day;
61 civilians to the CPA in May 2003, rising to 260 in April 2004;
two police officers in support of the UK’s SSR programme in Iraq in July 2003,
rising to 37 in March 2004; and
between four and eight staff to the British Office Baghdad.574
882.  Table 4 shows the number and location of UK civilian secondments to the CPA
between May 2003 and April 2004. In the absence of continuous data covering the
whole period, the figures have been taken from four summaries prepared for senior
officials and Ministers between May 2003 and April 2004.
573  The available data do not match precisely the dates of the CPA. Some earlier figures describe
deployments to ORHA, before its absorption into the CPA.
574  All figures in this list exclude security contractors.
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