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Women who defy the monopoly of men working in the security services Kosherttiyat
On: Tue 01/10/2012 10:05
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celebration with Iraq in the January 9 Police Day hesitate to question the extent of the involvement of Iraqi women in the police. Although official statistics are not available from the concerned authorities, but we can say that many thousands of policemen and women are engaged in much of the police.
Agency, all of Iraq is following this issue on the occasion of rejoicing, police found that the security conditions in Iraq and the violence that has gripped Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003 are to imposed on the police to resort to the involvement of female police officers Iraqi women within the formations in many provinces in order to perform the functions of specialist, at the time prompted the difficult living conditions and rampant unemployment and high rates of men and breadwinners to the involvement of women in the police.
and only the work of most women police officers in Iraq on administrative tasks and inspection of women in the security barriers, but there Ikmn duties and functions reserved for men, says police that al-Qaeda a bitter enemies of Iraq do not hesitate to recruit women in its operations since 2010 saw nearly 20 suicide bombings carried out by women blew themselves.
Um Hussein, police in Karbala play every day and duty to one of the security checkpoints south of the province, and although the duty is limited to inspection women, but says, "We all contribute in the process of maintaining security is our duty does not differ from the duty of the police men", which along with hundreds of women who volunteered in the police in Kerbala is keen on the success of the experience of women's participation in the security landscape, the modernity, as well as men. Not only searches policewomen for women at checkpoints but also to performing the inspection during the raids of homes to search for weapons or criminals. "Before the current experiment there was the experience in 1978 when he decided to form a women's police, but that experiment failed, for reasons the social worker in the forefront, Vtm transfer policewomen trained to the departments of the Ministry of Interior. The new experiment began when she worked for U.S. forces in the wake of the fall of the former Iraqi regime in 2003 to recruit Iraqi women and training them to work in the security forces and by 2004 succeeded efforts to recruit about 270 women in the police.
Despite the slowdown witnessed by the new experience during the last period, the government has activated them recently, especially at a time changed the armed groups of tactics through the use of women in suicide attacks, and the first signs in this direction produce a new cycle of female police officers in Karbala, which included 92 police to support security efforts in the city because of the density of visitors flocking to Karbala, followed by other courses.
policewomen who work at checkpoints Atoagdn inside the rooms or roofs especially placed next to the entrance .. They are waiting for the entry of women to them for Ikmn inspection. says one of the policewomen "work well in the police force and our duty is no different from The duty of the police men, as we all contribute in the process of maintaining security and that's what made me hasten to volunteer in addition to financial need. "
says her colleague, police Um Ali "may encounter some harassment of some women because of the lack Elmamhen the nature of our work, some of the women consider our secondary They say words reduces the importance of the work. "
For their part, showed the police their satisfaction with the work of women police officers with them, especially in the tasks of search of women that are a burden, especially during a doubt a woman, and says one of the policemen, "we meet with difficulty in the inspection of women during Addoumhen to the city, as we were just asking what was endured by their parents in all this bother to confirm. In Fallujah, there was a pioneering experience as opening the local council of the city of Fallujah, the mid-January 2008, the door to the women of the city to volunteer to the police who are confined between the ages of 20 to 35 years old, and who find reading and writing. Was graduated 45 officer - some of them carriers of a college degree - was assignment to work security and inspection in the Fallujah General Hospital and the Department of Municipal and services other official rate of 4 for each government department, and since then it has become possible to see them wearing uniforms and carrying badges, police, and identified at the time salary of the volunteer of 750 thousand dinars.
years ago was a female American soldiers at the entrance of Fallujah were searching women, and today Iraqi Ikmn this task; which brings satisfaction and acceptance. This approach came after the claim Directorate of Anbar police of the Ministry of the Interior to allow them to recruit 150 volunteer women, for their duties of inspection port cities of Anbar. In the city of Karbala have graduated from the academy 92 police in late 2007, and involve a number of them in the arrests and raids on homes for weapons and criminals, and relied on them in carrying out searches of women visitors shrines in the city during religious occasions, Kashoura Muharram and the mourning of Imam Hussein, which come tens of thousands of visitors, men and women to the city. In the province of Diwaniyah witnessed on February 13, 2008 graduated 39 police from a training course lasted eight weeks, bringing the number Cherttiyatha to 669 women.
Observers believe that the female police officers could benefit greatly in the specific tasks such as investigating the crimes of rape, because the victims do not feel embarrassed to talk about what happened to him more than if the investigator was a man, and be assigned to be in women's prisons.
As the work of women in the police took over the police officer Iraqi responsibility of managing a police station in the city of Midhtah Babil province, sparking a controversy by the residents of the city for being the first time engaged in a woman working as an officer in the police of this town surrounded by community farmers sincere Lieutenant names Shammari says she was dreaming of since I was her nails to become a policewoman, although it comes from a conservative family is the most appropriate place and only for women of the house, not to practice activities related to men, but and force them to Aotmarwa about them.
Shammari defied every prevailing social norms and achieved her ambition to become a police officer par excellence, to open the door to the fairer sex to join the security services that are no longer the preserve of men in Iraq after the change in 2003.
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