IslamOnline.net: Keening not to miss the lion's share of post-war Iraq cake and securing the utmost profit of the war it waged, the United States awarded a 50-million-dollar contract to a private firm to recruit 'advisors' to train police in the war-battered country, the State Department and the Virginia-based firm said Friday, April 18. "We have awarded a contract to DynCorp International to identify, deploy and support up to 1,000 police, justice and prison advisors to Iraq," said Brenda Greenberg, a department spokeswoman. The value of the contract could be as high as 50 million dollars in the first year, she said, confirming a statement from DynCorp's parent company Computer Sciences Corporation. The final amount of the contract will depend on assessments of Iraqi capabilities and needs by initial 'advisors', who are expected to arrive in the country shortly, the company said.
"Advisors will work with Iraqi criminal justice organizations at the national, provincial and municipal levels to assess threats to public order and mentor personnel at all levels of the Iraqi legal apparatus," it said. The company said it would be recruiting advisors from the ranks of current and retired US law enforcement officers with a minimum of 10 years of general experience and two years of specialized experience. DynCorp is a private military and security consulting company that has extensive past experience in dealing with US government contracts.
| Oh, dear. Having the Iraqi police trained in not only western police techniques, but by American police! It violates all cultural norms! What will they do with all those auto batteries? |
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