Police and Criminal Justice (continued)
52. The Iraq Police Service should be given greater responsibility to conduct criminal investigations and should expand its cooperation with other elements in the Iraqi judicial system in order to better control crime and protect Iraqi civilians.
53. The Iraqi Ministry of the Interior should undergo a process of organizational transformation, including efforts to expand the capability and reach of the current major crime unit (or Criminal Investigation Division) and to exert more authority over local police forces.
The sole authority to pay police salaries and disburse financial support to local police should be transferred to the Ministry of the Interior.
54. The Iraqi Ministry of the Interior should proceed with current efforts to identify, register, and control the Facilities Protection service.
U.S. Actions
55. The U.S. Department of Defense should continue its mission to train the Iraqi National Police and the Iraqi Border Police, which should be placed within the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.
56. The U.S. Department of Justice should direct the training mission of the police forces remaining under the Ministry of the Interior. 57. Just as the U.S military training teams are imbedded within Iraqi Army units, the current practice of imbedding U.S. police trainers should be expanded and the numbers of civilian training officers increased so that teams can cover all levels of the Iraqi Police Service, including local police stations.
These trainers should be obtained from among experienced civilian police executives and supervisors from around the world. These officers would replace the military police personnel currently assigned to training teams.
58. The FBI should expand its investigative and forensic training and facilities within Iraq, to include coverage of terrorism as well as criminal activity.
59. The Iraqi government should provide funds to expand and upgrade communications equipment and motor vehicles for the Iraqi Police Service.
60. The U.S. Department of Justice should lead the work of organizational transformation in the Ministry of the Interior. This approach must involve Iraqi officials, starting at senior levels and moving down, to create a strategic plan and work out standard administrative procedures, codes of conduct, and operational measures that Iraqis will accept and use. These plans must be drawn up in partnership.
61. Programs led by the U.S. Department of Justice to establish courts, prosecutors, and investigators; and to create institutions and practices to fight corruption must be strongly supported and funded.
New and refurbished courthouses with improved physical security, secure housing for judges and judicial staff, witness protection facilities, and anew Iraqi Marshals Service are essential parts of a secure and functioning system of justice.
The Oil Sector - Short Term
62. i. As soon as possible, the U.S. government should provide technical assistance to the Iraqi government to prepare a draft oil law that defines the rights of regional and local governments and creates a fiscal and legal framework for investment. Legal clarity is essential to attract investment.
ii. The U.S government should encourage the Iraqi government to accelerate contracting for the comprehensive well work-overs in the southern fields needed to increase production, but the United States should no longer fund such infrastructure projects.
iii. The U.S. military should work with the Iraqi military and with private security forces to protect oil infrastructure and contractors. Protective measures could include a program to improve pipeline security by paying local tribes solely on the basis of throughput.
iv. Metering should be implemented at both ends of the supply line. This step would immediately improve accountability in the oil sector.
v. In conjunction with the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. government should press Iraq to continue reducing subsidies in the energy sector, instead of providing grant assistance. Until Iraqis pay market prices for oil products, drastic fuel shortages will remain.
