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Posted on 09/21/2007 4:52:59 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2007 – The NATO Training Mission in Iraq is developing a new Gendarmerie-type training program focusing on key leadership skills taught by an Italian Carabinieri training unit.
The French Gendarmerie and Italian Carabinieri are military bodies charged with police duties among civilian populations. Officials believe this approach is ideally suited to security conditions in Iraq.
Italian Maj. Gen. Alessandro Pompegnani, deputy commander of the NATO Training Mission, said he is confident that new efforts to expand training under guidance of the Italian police force will be highly successful in allowing Iraqi security leadership to develop “the right mentality.”
“The conditions of the streets of Iraqi towns and cities are quite different than many of the streets in Europe,” Pompegnani said yesterday in a conference call with online journalists and “bloggers.”
However, he said he is confident that the tactics of the Carabinieri police force training that has “proven effective in over 100 countries (is) certainly applicable to the Iraqi forces.”
Pompegnani outlined the progress of operations and explained plans for specialized program in the region, projected to begin in October. The specialized training program, employing the careful guidance and mentoring support of about 40 Carabinieri soldiers, will equip 75 percent of Iraqi security leaders in country, he explained.
The two-year program will train a core of eight battalions of national police at Camp Dublin, near Bagdad International Airport. Each course will include two months of intensive training focusing on counterinsurgency, modern forensic techniques, and riot and crowd control, he said.
The work is focused on training, advising and mentoring Iraqi mid- to senior-level leaders. This will give the Iraqis “a unique opportunity to modernize and streamline their leadership standards,” Pompegnani said.
The Iraqi Ministry of Interior and Iraqi national police authorities have approved the new training structure, and Camp Dublin is being refurbished to accommodate the training. Officials also are working to procure equipment for the program, the general explained.
The NATO Training Mission in Iraq was established in 2004 to assist the Iraqis in building their security forces. Seventeen countries involved in this effort on the ground, and nine other countries provide equipment, material and strategic support.
(Jamie Findlater is assigned to the New Media branch of American Forces Information Service.)
FR WAR NEWS! Great News ... when will they get there ??
That’s all I have for now.
I’ve met, and peripherally worked with these guys...they’re very good, very professional lawmen.
Stationed in Naples in the late 1960’s. If you as an American got into a dustup or an accident involving a local, absolutely insist that someone call the carabinieri.
Many a tale of an Americano about to get shook down by the local polizia until the carabinieri showed up, told the polizia to get lost, and then apologized for any inconvenience.
“Incorruptible” was a term usually applied to the carabinieri and their sense of professionalism.
They are still Italy’s best. If the carabinieri are training the Iraqi police, that’s a good sign.
One of the revelations of NATO's involvement in Bosnia and later Kosovo was that NATO really had no standard Military Police doctrine. For decades, NATO spent untold time and effort ensuring standardization of infantry, armor and artillery doctrine, not to mention weaponry, commo, etc. Yet, when it came time to send forces across the Sava River, it became apparent that virtually every nation had its own idea as to what MPs were suppose to do on the *battlefield*. At the time, the US MP force had it's four battlefield missions: Area Security, Battlefield Circulation Control, EPW Ops, and Law and Order missions. The British MPs were largely tied to Law Enforcement/Criminal Investigation and Traffic Control with little if any tactical mission. The Carabinieri were, IMHO, the most flexible, responsive and most willing to adopt their tactics, techniques and procedures to the mission at hand rather. They could certainly identify with the American phrase "Git-R-Done".
“The NATO Training Mission in Iraq was established in 2004 to assist the Iraqis in building their security forces. Seventeen countries involved in this effort on the ground, and nine other countries provide equipment, material and strategic support.”
Bet Reid and Pelosi didn’t know that. The Democrat Majority Press wouldn’t print it either, truth about progress is hard to admit for real intellects./s
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