Iraqi Police
Its organisation, structure and recruitment were guided by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, and it is commanded by the reformed Iraqi Ministry of the Interior.
[2] In the north, Kurdish security forces did not experience any interruption, and in Mosul a thousand former police officers were hired by Major General David Petraeus to maintain the public order.
[9] The 3rd Federal Police Division, under the auspices of the Ninewa Operational Command with its headquarters in Mosul, collapsed in the ISIS 2014 Northern Iraq offensive by June 9.
They wear a dark-blue baseball cap with "POLICE" in white letters or body armour and a PASGT helmet.
It became the target of fighters from inside and outside Iraq; thousands of officers have been killed by gunfire and bombings by Iraqi insurgents, foreign terrorists and, in some cases, friendly fire from Coalition troops.
Due to high[14] unemployment in Iraq, many young Iraqi men have volunteered to join the police forces.
[21] Many members of the Iraqi police and Interior Ministry have ties to the Badr Brigade, which have been given leeway to punish those suspected of immorality.
In Basra, police guarding a local park reportedly made no attempt to stop an armed group from severely beating two women and shooting a male Iraqi friend of theirs to death.
In December 2005, US troops found 625 inmates held in "very overcrowded" conditions in a Baghdad Interior Ministry building.
[24][25] In October of that year, the Iraqi government dismantled a police brigade with connections to sectarian death squads.
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani announced that as of December 24, 2005, 12,000 police officers in Iraq died in the line of duty since the 2003 US-led invasion.
The joint patrols of the PTTs have helped curb violence, increasing respect for Iraq's police force.
Iraqi Federal Police have also been seen using the Croatian-made HS Produkt VHS-2 bullpup carbine during military operations against ISIS in northern Iraq.
