- Title: IRAQ: POLICE START TO RECRUIT NEW OFFICERS IN NAJAF
- Date: 1st June 2004
- Summary: (U3) NAJAF, IRAQ (JUNE 1, 2004) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF POLICE DIRECTING TRAFFIC IN STREET 0.09 2. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN NAJAF / U.S. TROOPS OUTSIDE 0.14 3. WIDE OF POLICE RECRUITS OUTSIDE POLICE HEADQUARTERS/ U.S. TROOPS NEARBY 0.20 4. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LINING UP FOR RECRUITING/ U.S. TROOPS NEARBY 0.35 5. WIDE OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE POLICE HEADQUARTERS 0.41 6. VARIOUS OF U.S SOLDIERS SITTING IN HUMVEE NEAR POLICE CARS 0.50 7. WIDE OF NAJAF'S POLICE CHIEF, BRIGADIER GHALIB HASHIM AL-JAZA'IRI, IN HIS OFFICE 0.54 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) POLICE CHIEF, BRIGADIER JAZA'IRI, SAYING: "We are receiving recruits but we do not have many people. We want people who do not have links to the Baath Party or any religious or political and secular parties. We want to form an independent police force unbiased towards any party or to the religious authority. Policemen should be independent and honest and has priority should be law and his main task is to protect people's lives and property." 1.29 9. VARIOUS OF US SOLDIERS AND IRAQI POLICE OUTSIDE POLICE HEADQUARTERS 1.41 10. CLOSE-UP OF POLICE EMBLEM AND RECRUITS ON THE BACKGROUND 1.46 11. SCU SOUNDBITE, RECRUIT ABBAS TAREQ , SAYING: "We, the people of Najaf have come to recruit to serve in polic. we have to protect our city , the city of Abu al-Hassan (reference to Imam Ali, cousin of Prophet Muhammed). We are the ones who should protect the city and no one else, we people and the youth of Najaf. All the youth want to recruit to join police, they want jobs and they should work." 2.06 12. VARIOUS OF RECRUITS HANDING OVER APPLICATIONS 2.19 13. SLV US WOMAN SOLDIER WATCHING CROWD 2.25 14. WIDE OF U.S. SOLDIERS SETTING UP BARBED-WIRE BARRICADES 2.30 15. VARIOUS OF U.S. SOLDIERS AND VEHICLES LEAVING POLICE HEADQUARTERS 3.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NAJAF, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA1HI1KLC11O0NDPC8J1WBSC0MS
- Story Text: People in the southern Shi'ite holy city of Najaf
started to recruit new police officers as a first step to
take over from the U.S. forces.
Several people lined up outside Najaf's main police
station on Tuesday (June 1) to be recruited to serve in the
police force.
The move is seen as a step by police to take over from
U.S. forces after their withdrawal from the city.
Negotiations are currently to reach an agreement with
Mehdi Army , militia of rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr.
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