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US officer spells out Iraq pol
WASHINGTON -- The day's mission was straightforward: Show the local Iraqi police how to escort a convoy of new recruits from Baqubah to the police academy in Sulymaniyah , about 125 miles to the north.
But like just about everything else involving the US training of Iraqi police, a relatively simple task quickly became complicated.
"The Iraqi police slept in, missing their movement," Army Captain Phillip Carter wrote of the April incident. Carter and his unit ultimately decided that it would be more trouble to roust them than it was worth.
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Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney
26 January 2007
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More police on beat is my prio
THE NSW Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, says he is prepared to have a "sensible debate" on the controversial rostering system under which police work four consecutive 12-hour shifts followed by up to six days off.
The Commissioner's comments yesterday followed disclosures by the Herald of police taking on second jobs under the rostering system. The Police Integrity Commission is concerned at how many water police have been moonlighting.
"What I want to do is have a serious look at it to see, if it works, how it could be made to work better and if it doesn't work, we've got to come up with a sensible proposition that sees more police on the street," Mr Moroney told 2UE.
Yesterday, neither the Premier, Morris Iemma, nor the Opposition Leader, Peter Debnam, would canvass changing the system. "The issue of block rostering is not as simple as it is presented in some quarters. It [any change] also has very strong opposition from front-line police," Mr Iemma said.
Mr Debnam said: "It's a management issue that's really up to the commissioner." He said he was "pleased" to see Mr Moroney was prepared to look at it.
Mr Moroney said the rostering system was "an agreement struck between my predecessor and the police association of that time and it's part of a binding industrial agreement".
Victorian police recently won a case against their police association, in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission after they argued that 12-hour night shifts were an occupational health and safety risk.
In the run-up to the state election in March, the Government and the Opposition have promised more police officers. The local area commander for Liverpool, Mick Plotecki, has claimed that changing the rostering system to eight-hour shifts would be the equivalent of providing 800 extra police on the beat.
The NSW Police Association disputes this assertion, saying Mr Plotecki is confusing the number of shifts with actual police numbers. The association's secretary, Peter Remfrey, said yesterday that "for some time" the association had been "in very productive discussions with NSW Police, designed to improve the rostering system". He also said the present rostering system was "highly efficient".
Meanwhile, with more police expected to graduate from the academy next week, enabling the Government to provide the 750 extra police they promised last year, it has been revealed that many trainees have failed their first examinations.
Out of a class of about 870 students, 136 failed an ethics exam and have to resit it. The commander of education services, Tony Aldred, said between 20 and 30 students failed a fitness test.
He said that with the extra numbers came some mature recruits. Graduates ranged in age from 19 to 52, he said.
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