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Fresh Iraqi police carefully cultivated at Jordan training academy.
Byline: Hannah Allam
MOAQQAR, Jordan _ No signs advertise the police academy that sits in a barren expanse of the eastern Jordanian desert. Local journalists don't write about it. The guards who work there can't talk about it.
Academy officials say the anonymity protects the hundreds of Iraqi police recruits who leave the 450-acre sanctuary to face "the toughest law-enforcement job in the world." Each fresh-faced recruit has a target on his back once he returns to Iraq, where more than 350 officers have been killed in the past year for cooperating with occupation authorities.
Neither the students nor the instructors at the $100 million Jordan International Police Training Center like to dwell on the dangers. Instead, a day's visit finds recruits focusing on the practicalities of vehicle searches or interview techniques. They ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Fresh Iraqi police carefully cultivated at Jordan training academy.