The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq has come up with a plan to keep the peace in the war-torn country after the military defeat of ISIS: A "police presence in a box" manned by Iraqi police officers.
The so-called program calls for 100 shipping containers with laptops, furniture, and Land Cruiser vehicles will be set up as makeshift, mobile police stations in Mosul and across five liberated provinces, Canadian Brig. Gen. D.J. Anderson, who is director of partner force development for coalition.
Another 100 "border guard in a box" containers will also go along crossing to Syria.
The $50 million program, paid for by the United States as part of its train and equip program, is designed to give Iraqis the sense of a police and security presence in areas damaged by fighting ISIS, Anderson said. The first two of the shipping containers were delivered this week to Iraqi police training centers.
"The contents can be unpacked and set up quickly to allow the police to immediately begin serving their citizens," he said.
The containers include a tent with a large working space, furniture, lighting, water tanks, laptop computers, phones, GPS equipment, border security equipment, and two Land Cruiser vehicles, according to Anderson.
The police boxes will be rolled out this summer and the 100 border guard boxes will come later.
With ISIS near defeat and cornered in a tiny section of Mosul, the coalition is hashing out plans to shift from military operations with Iraqi forces to what Anderson called "true-blue policing" across the liberated areas of the country.
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