Italian Carabinieri Training Iraqi National Police (New story same title)

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[SandRat]

Iraqi National Police training with Italian Carabinieri, demonstrate anti-riot policing techniques. Anti-riot policing is one of 15 topics taught in the eight-week Carabinieri training at Camp Dublin, Iraq. Photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Erica R. Gardner.

CAMP DUBLIN — Italian Maj. Gen. Alessandro Pompegnani, deputy commander, NATO Training Mission – Iraq, and Italian Col. Fabrizio Parrulli, commander of the Italian Carabinieri Team, hosted a media day focusing on Carabinieri technique training for the Iraqi National Police Dec. 5.

The first eight-week training course for 450 Iraqi National Police began Oct. 27.

The participants range from junior to senior level police and the training covers a wide range of policing areas, from counter-insurgency to riot control. The training will assist eight battalions and will run for two years.

The Carabinieri training team is composed of specialized instructors, most from 2nd Mobile Brigade. This unit carries out overseas operations, overseas military assistance and training and provides the bulk of Carabinieri international missions.

“The aim of this training is to create specialized units inside the Iraqi National Police, enabling them to face security issues across the country. Within the 15 areas of training, the course includes crowd control operations, civil disturbances and criminal investigations activities,” said Parrulli.

An element of good policing is to have a trust relationship with the public. One of the goals of the training team is to transform the old way of policing into one that will function in a rebuilt nation.

“This training was built on the real needs of the Iraqi National Police, for carrying out current and future tasks that will be assigned to them by the Iraqi Prime Minister,” said Parrulli. “Not only is training specialized for current operations, but for future building of the new Iraqi National Police.”

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[Grimmy]

This is a good thing to see happening. The Iraqi Police are getting exposed to a broad spectrum of ideas, practices and tactics.

[Spruce]

Man! Where did they get those odd fatigues? The USAF?

[YOUGOTIT]

Excellent as the Italian Carabinieri are one of the best in the world. Having seen them in action for many, many years in Italy. Well trained professionals.

[Popocatapetl]

One of the biggest mistakes we made at the beginning of the occupation, among a surfeit of good ideas, was in not replacing the Iraqi legal system along with everything else.

The reason is that the Iraqi legal system is based on the inferior French legal model, itself based on the Napoleonic Code, or Code Civil. This inhibits business in every country that uses it, and is second rate compared to the English-US Common Law.

In fact, it has been humorously suggested that the US supported the EU using the Code Civil, because we knew that the EU would be in competition with us, and we wanted an edge by handicapping them.

But I suppose the argument can be made that because J. Paul Bremer did for Iraq what MacArthur did for Japan, or even better, that unless Iraq had something wrong with it, it would be like a second United States on the far side of the world and totally dominate the other side of the planet.