Iraqi Police Get Little Money, Less Respect Iraq's local police are at the bottom of a ladder where corruption skims off money for even the most basic needs, from bullets to gasoline.

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi Police gathered together with their counterparts from the Iraqi National Police and Iraqi Army to conduct a situational update briefing on the morning of May 26th. The meeting ...

Iraqi Police Struggle with Rule of Law Charges of bribery, corruption and violence call into question the effectiveness of the new Iraqi police force. Steve Inskeep talks with Bayan Jaber, ...

Seventy percent of the Iraqi police force has been infiltrated by militias, primarily the Mahdi Army, according to U.S. military police trainers. Several days spent with American units illustrated ...

BAGHDAD — The newly minted Iraqi police cadets march with great enthusiasm, if not great precision. “Mama, mama, can’t you see,” belts out an American Military Police instructor in English ...

"They [Iraqi police] are more motivated," said 1st Lt. John Johnson, 4th platoon leader with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

At a time when Iraqi insurgents are targeting local police officers and recruits for attack, the United States has raised by one-third -- to 135,000 -- the size of the Iraqi police force it says ...

BAQUBAH, Iraq, June 26 -- U.S. military forces and Iraqi police pushed back Friday against an insurgency that a day earlier orchestrated attacks across central and northern Iraq, striking a ...

Iraqi police and aspiring recruits have been a major target of insurgents. More than 700 have been killed in attacks, most of them suicide bombings outside of recruitment centers.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced Friday that police seized control of the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf and arrested 400 members of militias loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, but the ...

Iraq’s police force has suffered from inadequate recruiting and vetting of candidates that has apparently even allowed some insurgents to join up, an American government report says.