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Emergency Response Brigades Return to Iraqi Federal Police
All of the Provincial Iraqi Police Paramilitary forces are planned to be retrained and reequipped as part of their conversion to Emergency Response Brigades and Federal Police.

The ERBs have first chance at the personnel from the provincial SWAT forces. They are sent to the Operator Selection Course and the best 50 percent join the ERBs while the others return to the provincial forces or go to Federal Police training.

Only 9 of the existing 12-14 Emergency Response Battalions have been identified so far. They appear to be being organizing into 6-7 brigades at this time.

The Federal Police plans to have at least a brigade in each province while the ERF plans to mirror this with at least a battalion of SWAT personnel in each province. The Federal Police plans to grow to 16-20 divisions and the ERF to 16-20 brigades.
Iraq, a nation whose skeleton was built by the US military. Lord knows what it will become in just a decade or two.
Why does Iraq need both a federal police and a federal emergency response force? I may be missing something here; is this a duplication of services as a response to the usual human tendency to bureaucratize everything, a need to 'divide and conquer', or do they have genuinely separate roles?

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-24
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=314558