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Unit/Organization Information
  • 6123 Federal Police Transition Tm.
Location
Coin Location: 14P5
Homebase: Fort Riley, Kansas
Deployment: Iraq
Additional Information
Date Acquired: 27 July 2010
Donated by: Federal Police Transition Team
Copies: 1 of 1

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Location: 14P5 Height: 2

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Multi-National » Training

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Journal - Page 54 - Line 22 6123 Federal Police Transition Team, Piyala Province, Iraq

A Military Transition Team, or Transition Team, is a 10-15 soldier team that and trains local forces. The term has been used in the context of the "War on Terror" to design groups training in particular the Iraqi Security Forces, Afghan Army and other Afghan security forces. In 2005, in order to provide similar mentorship to Iraq’s other security forces, the Multinational Corps-Iraq (MNC-I) began to embed transition teams with the Ministry of the Interior’s paramilitary Iraqi Federal Police (FP) and regular Iraqi Police Service (IPS). Formerly known as Special Police Training Teams, SPTTs, these national police teams - called Federal Police Transition Teams, FPTTs - are nearly identical to those supporting the Iraqi Army. Unlike MiTTs, however, these teams are traditionally augmented with a contracted U.S. civilian police officer called a Law Enforcement Professional, LEP. The LEP provides expertise in civilian law enforcement functions to the teams.