IRAQI POLICE AND IRAQI CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (ICDC) CONDUCT SEARCH AND ARREST OPERATIONS, 20 DECEMBER 2003 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: IRAQI POLICE AND IRAQI CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (ICDC) CONDUCT SEARCH AND ARREST OPERATIONS, 20 DECEMBER 2003 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFV 103
  • Other titles: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Scenes from a search and arrest operation in the Basra region.
  • Description: View of convoy on the move at night (normal camera: very dark image). Irrigation channel in the morning. Views of target house in the early morning with soldiers on the roof and members of the security forces standing guard outside. Search takes place inside the compound; one of the residents assists. (British soldiers are also present.) Outhouses are searched. Daylight: British soldier is interviewed, suspects are detained, their wrists bound with plastic restraints. Soldiers keep watch as the search continues through surrounding buildings. Further interviews with members of the British Army and ICDC. Prisoners are processed. British soldiers gather around their Land Rovers as detainees are led from the house to the vehicles, which drive away. Meanwhile, the search of the house continues. Soldiers give messages to camera.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BFV 103
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 2003-12-20
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service) Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (regiment/service) Iraqi Police Service (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Basra, 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: 30 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFV 103

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 149 (FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 20 [Allocated Title]) BFV 111 (IRAQI POLICE AND IRAQI CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (ICDC) CONDUCT SEARCH AND ARREST OPERATIONS AT NIGHT, 20 DECEMBER 2003 [Allocated Title])
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