Police Academy-Tikrit: Military Police, Civilian Officers Teach Tactics to Tikrit Police

摘要

Saladin (the 12th-century, Tikrit-born, Kurdish political and military leader for whom the Salah ad Din province, Iraq, is named) is renowned for leading a Muslim resistance against foreign fighters and recapturing territories which were crucial to the people of the Arab world. He is an admired figure within the Muslim culture. Nine centuries later, the police of Tikrit, the capital of the Salah ad Din province, also battle an enemy. And today, the citizens of Tikrit again have a chance to reclaim territory-by joining the local police force. It has been five years since the toppling of the Saddam Hussein regime. In Hussein's hometown of Tikrit (located in the northern portion of the volatile Sunni Triangle, about 140 kilometers northwest of Baghdad), Iraqi police are beginning to lead their own operations to improve the security of the city. They are using their own information sources and planning the operations themselves. They are patrolling the streets and trying to maintain law and order by working with the local populace-most of which still revere the deceased dictator. To some, it has been an uphill struggle to keep peace within the streets. However, it seems that the more trained and professional the police who serve in the neighborhoods of Tikrit, the safer the environment.