US will use ‘police in a box’ to secure Iraq 

Published July 6, 2017 6:17pm ET



The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq has come up with a plan to keep the peace in the war-torn country after the military defeat of ISIS: A “police presence in a box” manned by Iraqi police officers.

The so-called program calls for 100 shipping containers with laptops, furniture, and Land Cruiser vehicles will be set up as makeshift, mobile police stations in Mosul and across five liberated provinces, Canadian Brig. Gen. D.J. Anderson, who is director of partner force development for coalition.

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