Title:HANDOVER OF NEW POLICE CARS TO THE IRAQI POLICE SERVICE, 15 JUNE 2006 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 795
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Members of the Iraqi Police Service receive an initial batch of 30 police cars (out of a total of 800 paid for by the British Osiris Fund are handed over at Shaibah Logistics Base.
Description: Views of the new police cars (a considerable number of them) parked up in lines. In a tent, a British Major General gives a speech (in English, later translated into Arabic) to mark the handover. Ceremonial handover of keys to senior Iraqi officers. The cars are given a test drive.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 795
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-06-15
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Iraqi Police Service (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: 11 mins
