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The Iraqi police enlisted 301 recruits during a recent recruiting drive in Fallujah and Habbaniyah. The new recruits will undergo six-week basic training in Jordan. Another 400 were enlisted during a recruiting drive in Ramadi.

The situation was far different last year: One year ago a murderous intimidation campaign prevented local Iraqis from enlisting in Ramadi. Recruiting numbers for police were insignificant.

More than 1,000 enlisted in the police force last month. Over 800 are expected to enlist in Anbar Province this month.

The local tribes stood up to the intimidation campaign and are taking back their city from the terrorists, said the Coalition spokesman in Ramadi Marine Maj. Riccoh Player.

Hundreds of Iraqi Police are holding areas cleared by Iraqi and American forces in recent operation in the worst neighborhoods of Ramadi, said Player. Building and manning a police station in Ramadi is what progress looks like in a counterinsurgency.

Based on tips from Iraqi civilians, the Iraqi national police, with Coalition forces, detained ten and uncovered several weapons caches during an operation in Baghdad: The operation was the result of tips from local citizens of possible insurgents and weapons caches in the neighborhood.

The national police seized three large weapons caches containing one rifle fitted with a silencer, one machine gun, one sniper rifle, assorted small arms ammunition and bomb-making materials. In Fallujah, Iraqi police and army troops captured 47 insurgents during Operation Ar Bead.

The operation was planned and executed by Iraqi troops, who have tamed the once restless city: The district police chief this was his idea, said Lt. Col. Race Roberson, the RCT-5 police implementation officer.

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