Posted on 01/04/2008 8:22:31 AM PST by ConorMacNessa
FALLUJAH, Iraq (Jan. 4, 2008) -- Iraqi police students graduated as the newest addition to the Fallujah police force at Camp Baharia, Dec. 31.
It was an extensive eight-day training course teaching 70 students law enforcement skills, tactics and procedures.
“We learned a lot of different skills with this training,” said Husham Rahi Daham, an honor graduate from the class. “This training gave us the merit that we all need.”
Students selected for the class are Fallujah citizens who were previously helping their community by serving as neighborhood watch personnel providing security at vehicle and pedestrian checkpoints throughout the city. Based on their prior efforts, experience and dedication as neighborhood watch, they were awarded the opportunity to serve as policemen.
Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, and Navy special operations force service members trained the students in a boot camp atmosphere.
“The whole thing was pretty fun because these are the guys we work with in town,” said 21-year-old Cpl. Michael M. Dolan, an instructor for the course. “We see them in our precinct out in town and then we bring them out here and train them. It’s kind of fun and everybody is kind of a character.”
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