Three Basra residents discuss their hopes and worries about security, as British forces hand over the province to Iraqis.
When our brother got kidnapped in November, we went to the police with the phone number of the people who had demanded a ransom.
For the entire month that our brother was held, we didn’t get a single call or visit from the police to ask about it.
That’s the biggest problem – the Iraqi security forces don’t believe in what they do.
I think the army attracts a better sort of person, but many of the Iraqi police are just there for the money. They are loyal to their party and the militias, not to public security.
If a policeman challenges a criminal, the criminal’s clan will come after him. There’s no law to protect him, so he’s scared of doing his job properly.
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