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Washington ends quietly largest program for the rehabilitation of Iraq police entrusted $ 700 million
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Magazine reported U.S. specialized military affairs and security that the United States decided earlier this month to end a program to develop the Iraqi police in order to "streamline the U.S. presence", while noting State Department official said the U.S. side will focus starting September for efforts to develop rule of law institutions such as eradicating and the fight against corruption.
The magazine said "Danger Room" that the police development program was the last major project is a military after the war in Iraq by the United States, which is ambitious and costly effort at some point after the U.S. withdrawal to enhance the capabilities of the Iraqi police.
The magazine said in its report that the Obama administration "quietly cut off power" for the Iraqi police training program, which has received much criticism, leaving about 400 thousand Iraqi policeman without care on the part of the United States.
The Ministry of State she pulled another of the project advisers, who called the police development program, in the first of March.
The report considered that this step requires the training effort less than two years after the Pentagon to deliver him to U.S. foreign, having spent $ 700 million foreign, at least in it.
The report quoted a U.S. State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity that the ending of the police training program was part of a series of "tough choices" taken by the United States "to achieve our goals in Iraq to organize the American presence and reduce the total financial requirements."
The report said that a group of U.S. diplomats in Baghdad are in the administrative tasks necessary to end the effort, which was drafted in 2011 to endure five years.
The official said the State Department said after the first of next September, will operate the U.S. embassy in Iraq in general programs "rule of law" such as "judicial cooperation, and the fight against corruption, and drug demand reduction, and corrections," adding that the U.S. State will retain a number " limited "of U.S. trainers for the police. He said that the total number of trainers owners in this effort is: two officers of the Foreign Service.
The report commented that ending the program to develop the Iraqi police would close the stage and extensive and expensive of U.S. support for institutions in the post-Saddam era, which Washington worked to build.
The report said the U.S. Agency for International Development also plans to leave Iraq by the end of this year, after spending about 250 million dollars.
The report adds, "Danger Room" that as soon as U.S. State assumed responsibility for training Iraqi police, began to be exposed to severe criticism from senior Iraqi officials and U.S. regulatory organizations on the grounds that it ignored Iraqi priorities.
He said Adnan al-Asadi of the Inspector General of the U.S. for Iraq reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, said Iraqi police development program "useless", and his staff flabby, and focuses on the "minor issues" such as management and information systems.
The report says that "the translators supporters of the program" will recall that their advisers want to interview Iraqis, but "drinking tea" was generally more than their interviews. The report also pointed out that the U.S. State Department deliberately repeatedly to reduce the size of its staff dedicated to the program after the takeover of the Pentagon immediately, and is part of the criticism emanating from the Iraqi side.
Has been to reduce the number of trainers from 350 to 190 in coach in December of 2010; In July of 2012 has been reduced to only 86. Even though it was planning to publish a series of training operations in parts of Iraq, the presence of three large sites in Baghdad, Erbil and Basra, which took the lion's share in the program of Altdrebh centers of the 28 training centers spread over 10 of Iraq's provinces. Even this scheme was volatile and unstable.
In 2012, U.S. State boosted its best training in the extension of the police academy in Baghdad after spending $ 108 million to modernize the building, but after months of this, close the Annex.
The report quoted State Department official as saying that "the United States remains committed to a close partnership with Iraq, including cooperation in several aspects in the field of rule of law, as stated in the strategic framework agreement."
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