The spokesman for the Ministry of Interior and the Security Media Cell, Brigadier General Muqdad Miri, announced yesterday , Sunday, the restructuring of the Anbar Governorate Regiment of the Federal Police, and the issuance of various rulings against members of the regiment on the basis of their disobedience and rebellion against a decision issued by the ministry and their quarrel with a security force implementing the decision .
This came in a press conference held today regarding the details of the pronouncement of the verdict issued by the Second Internal Security Forces Court, Third District, against a number of members of the Sixth Regiment, Special Tasks Brigade, Federal Police, accused of violating the law .
Brigadier General Merry said during the press conference that the Anbar Regiment had been completely restructured, an alternative force had been sent, and 15 members of the instigators who had caused the brawl had been reached .
He explained that 12 of them were arrested and referred to court, and three of them are still at large, noting that sentences of severe imprisonment for a period of three years and six months were issued against three convicts according to the provisions of Law 6 of the Internal Security Forces Law for committing disobedience to their leaders, inciting the rest of the accused, and refusing to hand over their weapons in a “dangerous ” precedent.
The Interior Ministry spokesman also indicated that a secondary ruling was issued against five of them, according to Article 34 of the Internal Security Forces Law, with severe imprisonment for two years for using the regiment’s weapons, indicating that two of them who filmed were sentenced to simple imprisonment for six months for filming the chaos .
He added that it was accompanied by a penalty that was consequential to these rulings, which is: dismissal of the convicts from service based on Law 38 and fining them for firing 8 bullets, noting that the three missing persons are still being searched for .
A security source in the Anbar Police Command reported last Friday that a quarrel broke out between two security forces, one of which refused to implement a military decision .
The source said, “We were informed by the Karma Police Station that there was a quarrel and gunfire inside the Special Missions Regiment of the 6th Baghdad Brigade (formerly Halbousi Protection) .”
He added, “The origin of the quarrel was the arrival of a force from the brigade headquarters to the regiment for the purpose of accompanying a number of soldiers from the above regiment for the purpose of participating in a special missions course .”
He continued, “Because the soldiers did not want to participate in the course, a fight and shooting occurred. Legal measures were taken and a major investigation was opened by the Joint Operations Command and the Ministry of Interior .”
The Iraqi Ministry of Interior also issued a clarification regarding the incident .
The ministry said in a statement that “Minister Abdul Amir Al-Shammari directed to take deterrent and firm legal measures and form an investigative council against a number of offensive elements of the Federal Police forces in the Sixth Regiment of the Special Tasks Brigade of the Federal Police in Al-Karma District in Anbar Governorate, who caused chaos and riots, and to refer them to the competent courts to receive their just punishment for violating the applicable instructions .”
Al-Shammari also directed the commander of the Federal Police Forces to be present at the scene of the accident and to investigate its circumstances .
The statement stressed that “the Ministry of Interior strongly rejects individual actions by some of its members, and does not allow any transgression or rejection of any decisions issued by the competent authorities in the Ministry.”
