Title:THE DTDF (DIVISIONAL TEMPORARY DETENTION FACILITIES) AT SHAIBAH LOGISTICS BASE, 21 APRIL 2007 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 920
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Staff Sergeant Sneddon gives a guided tour of the recently-vacated Divisional Temporary Detention Facilities at Shaibah.
Description: START 00:00:00 Personnel wait to commence filming. Cameraman's watch is shown; time 8:08.
00:00:19 Staff Sergeant Sneddon introduces himself prior to showing us the (now vacated) facilities of the DTDF.
00:00:42 The small external area through which the detainees would originally be brought by JFIT (the Joint Forces Intelligence Team); this was originally blacked off to form an "airlock" between the facility and the base, but the hessian covering has now been taken down.
00:01:02 Walk down internal corridor (full of debris) to the seating area outside the processing facility where the prisoners would have waited.
00:01:37 Interior of processing facility where internee would be interviewed, checked by a doctor, and photographed. He would then be issued clothing and his own clothing bagged.
01:02:50 Corridor in North Compound, where internees were held in single cells for up to fourteen days; interior of one of the cells where the walls are roughly scratched to prevent prisoners from writing.
00:03:57 General Population: twelve man cell in the Category D compound is shown (eight mattresses in this particular cell).
00:05:15 TCUs (washing and showing facilities) in General Population; exterior and interior of the unit - twelve sinks and twelve showers.
00:06:08 Category A compound: cell block with washing and toilet facility. Interior of a typical cell, with several mattresses on the floor; the departed detainees have left behind a makeshift set of weights made from filled water bottles.
00:07:15 Detainee's medical facilities: container with a doctor's surgery, behind which is a gated building where sick detainees could be bedded down. (Serious illnesses would be treated at the hospital at the COB - the Contingency Operating Base - in Basra.)
00:08:15 Informal chat with cameraman (with expletives) as the team walk across the compound (shaky camera work; the formal filming has finished but the camera has not been switched off).
00:09:58 Interior of one of the sangars, and panning shots over the facility.
END 00:10:38
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 920
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2007-04-21
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Tilly, Ross (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Shaibah Logistics Base, Shaibah, 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: 10 mins
