Title:IRAQI POLICE AND IRAQI CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (ICDC) CONDUCT SEARCH AND ARREST OPERATIONS AT NIGHT, 20 DECEMBER 2003 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 111
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes from a search and arrest operation in the Basra region, shot using an image intensifier and normal light.
Description: View of convoy on the move at night (normal camera: very dark image).
Image intensifier footage shows Land Rovers approaching target house and British soldiers/ICDC/Iraqi Police preparing to go in. They enter the house and begin their search; they also detain suspects, who have their wrists bound with plastic restraints. Suspects are questioned. Rooms are searched, including a bedroom. Soldiers outside the house.
Normal light: views of target house in the early morning. Members of the security forces stand guard outside. Search takes place inside the compound; one of the residents assists. (British soldiers are also present.) Outhouses are searched. 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. Interviews with British and Iraqi soldiers.
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 111
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: 23 mins
