DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ
JOINT TASK FORCE 134
Detainee Operations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Release 20091108

November 8, 2009

Largest Iraqi Correctional Officer class graduates at FOB Future

CAMP CROPPER, Iraq – More than 600 Iraqi Correctional Officers (ICOs) graduated training this week at Forward Operating Base Future.

This class was a three-week pre-service refresher course for already certified Iraqi Correctional Officers, who will eventually completely take the reins when detainee operations transition to the Government of Iraq.  Currently, ICOs work side by side with U.S. Military Police.

“At Correctional Training Center (CTC), all training of cadets is handled by Iraqi instructors.  U.S. soldiers only monitor the class,” said 2nd Lt. Chris Cahak, A Company, 1-128 Infantry Battalion, training officer in charge.  “The CTC is also fully administered by Iraqi staff.  My staff and I facilitate training and provide advice if asked,” he said.

After the cadets graduate, they go back to the Iraqi Corrections System (ICS) and are sent out to their assignments. The 610 cadets that recently graduated were sent to Taji.

ICS is looking forward to more advanced training classes for the ICOs.

“We are going to follow the goals and the purposes in the previous curriculum,” said Mohammed Homady Chiad, Academy Director.  “We are going to take it as a foundation to develop the curriculum in the future with coordination between us and the American Advisors,” he said.

This was the fourth class to graduate this year, bringing the total of pre-service graduates for the Correctional Training Center to approximately 1,500. 

The two staffs are preparing for the turnover of the center to Iraqi control on Dec. 15.  “The CTC has transferred in supply specialists to operate the newly constructed Central In-processing Facility (CIF) and all control of supplies has been turned over to the Iraqis,” said Cahak. 

Mr. Chiad continued, “We are going to hire new instructors and new management based on the official structure made previously.”  “We need 80 instructors with a high ethics level because we have an advanced curriculum,” he said.

Various classes with joint oversight will continue to run up to and through the turnover on the center.  

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