Title:QUICK REACTION FORCE AT UMM QASR PORT, 5 AUGUST 2004 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 7
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Iraqi Port Authority's Quick Reaction Force (QRF) in Umm Qasr.
Description: Exercise at the port: the Quick Reaction Force (all masked) apprehend an "intruder", surrounding him and aiming their weapons. He is detained and searched before being led away. QRF pick-up truck with flashing lights. QRF leader reports on radio. Gunmen pose for camera.
Exterior and interior of QRF accommodation. Scenes in kitchen where a rice-based meal is being prepared. Members of the QRF (still in their masks) inspect a map of the port.
Sign "Ports Joint Security Operations Centre", where the QRF are based. Interior of the operations room, where members of staff operate computers and check radios. (Batch of portable radios at charging point on desk.) Clocks show local (Iraqi) time, the time in Kuwait and Dubai, and also Greenwich Mean Time.
Interview with Captain Henry Bursden of D Squadron the Queen's Royal Lancers, role being to mentor and train customs in southern Iraq, and also the mentoring of the Umm Qasr Port Authority. He talks about the setting up of the Quick Reaction Force, part of the Port Authority's Security Division. He also discusses the reason for the covering of their faces (to deter identification, because most of the criminals are local people). The Queen's Royal Lancers are also based at the Operations Centre. Discussion of activities of the QRF
Interview with masked member of the QRF (in Arabic).
General views of the port, showing quayside, various cranes, local man fishing with a line, and merchant vessels - close-up of Sea Ranger. Also views of shipwrecks and damaged for equipment elsewhere in the port. Iraqi flag flies.
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 7
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-08-05
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Gedge, Andy (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bursden, Henry (person)
British Army, Queen's Royal Lancers, D Squadron (regiment/service)
Iraqi Port Authority, Quick Reaction Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Umm Qasr, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 22 mins
