Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20061111-01
Nov. 11, 2006

Iraqi Police drive recruits 400 in Ramadi
1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division PAO

RAMADI, Iraq – Marking the largest recruiting drive in the Ramadi district history, over
four hundred nine men joined the Iraqi Police during a three-day recruiting drive here.

Becoming an Iraqi policeman offers young men an opportunity to have a
profession where they can protect their families.

“I want to join the Iraqi Police because I want to save my country from the
insurgency,” stated one police applicant who said the insurgents had killed his cousin.
“It is the duty of every Iraqi citizen to do what they can to protect our country… When I
finish training and come back to [Ramadi to] serve, Ramadi will be even safer than it is
now.”

According to Marine Maj. Jeff Wicker, Police Implementation Officer, “The first
requirement is literacy, they have to be able to read and write… We’re getting a better
quality recruit as the situation is improving and things become safer, [the potential
recruits] feel more secure in coming to the recruiting drive.”

“I joined the IPs because I want to help save my country. I want peace in all Iraq,”
said one local IP helping with the recruiting drive. He stated that he has seen an
improvement in the security situation, “I am very proud of everything we have
accomplished.”

Potential recruits must be over 18 years of age, and pass a physical and medical
test to identify any possible major problems that would keep them from completing the
academy or hinder their duties as policemen later.

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