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Security Agencies in Iraq Face Challenge of Corruption and Criminals in the Ranks
Iraqi security agencies, particularly the national police, are facing a challenge of cleaning their ranks of security officials who have been involved in all types of criminal acts, including bribery, thefts, murder and kidnappings.
These agencies are central to U.S. calculations of withdrawing from Iraq and leaving Iraqi internal security in Iraqi hands.
Interior Ministry intelligence chief Gen. Hussein Kamal [who is in charge of the national police force] said that the ministry has let go of 60,000 individuals in the current year and that it expelled 15,000 last year because they had a criminal record.
He said that during last summer, the ministry was forced to recruit 1,500 persons into to the police after they were nominated by political parties, and they are there to carry out "the political agenda of their parties."
Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, October 23, 2009
Posted at: 2009-10-23
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