Detailed
TIME-Line for Police Identification Cards & Salary Reform
Salary Reform will challenge the Ministry of
Interior’s (Ministry’s) resourcefulness by requiring the use of the following
assets:
- 100 employees deployed temporarily to combine information from a paper data base compiled by the Qualifying Committee’s (QC’s) data-collectors, a computer file of employee information and finger prints and, possibly, governorate-level employee rosters available to the Ministry in Baghdad;
- several hundred security personnel for at least the first two pay-days under the reform; and,
- 25-50 personal computers to consolidate information.
Should the Ministry find itself in a position to
implement pay-parity with the military in conjunction with payroll reform, the
Ministry could apply a unified salary plan to assign a certain level of pay
with each rank. Each pay-level would
then correspond to a military pay-scale on a basis of 100% equality between the
Defence and Interior Ministries.
In the various time-lines presented below, one of two
distribution channels will be used for payment of salaries: the current system of station commanders
distributing payments or designated branches of the state-owned banks,
Al-Rafidain and Al-Rashid. If the
Ministry is forced to continue with the traditional distribution system that
has promoted corruption, it could alleviate potential payroll abuse by station
commanders with the installation of telephone hot-lines. Please recall that, under this reform, the
Ministry of Finance will release only the amount of money properly payable to
those employees registered with the QC.
The telephone hot-line option will entail the
establishment of controls to protect tough-minded station-chiefs from false
accusations by angry employees. This
control over the hot-lines is just one example of the many details the Deputy
Ministers will decide during the salary reform.
Please note that this time-line is not comprehensive; details have been
omitted while the QC will still have to submit a report outlining the criteria
for retention or letting go of employees.
The benefits of accelerated salary reform will be:
- human resource and payroll records centralized at the
Ministry in
- centralized accountability for station commanders through the hot-lines or removal of control over funds from them;
- convincing evidence for the Ministry of Finance of the Ministry’s rigor and professionalism to argue for pay-parity; and,
- consolidation of internal controls away from the governorates and the Minister in favor of the Deputy Ministers.
In sum, this initiative will aid you in exerting
centralized control and accountability while permitting local police forces to
use their discretion in reacting to crimes and other local matters. The time-lines will abide by the following
‘key’; or, color-coding:
A SOFA was not going to happen. For six months, I was in the strategy group plotting out the security partnership post-2011. The consensus was a sweet-sounding but utterly delusional 35-50,000 troops to be left behind. That was what the military commanders deemed appropriate -- felt the U.S. was entitled to dictate terms of that eventual partnership -- and that figure showed up in the press as 'expectations'.
ReplyDeleteThe 5-20,000 soldiers claimed today is post-hoc revisionism to make the group-think seem realistic. I tried to raise the possibility of ZERO troops and then build from there. That sentiment went nowhere fast and I was looking for new work. The military command was replete with deadbeats in uniform willing to revel in the 'hero' accolades but never leaving the Green zone and making no serious effort to prod the security forces forward.
In fact, many of these uniformed deadbeats shrouded, via over-classification, the re-infestation of the Ministry of Interior by shi'ite death-squads (the main problem then and the main problem now). We had brilliant people -- no, I was not one -- who knew the score but were undercut by overly ambitious idiots putting their next promotion or their pensions (at the expense of 25-33% of the household hard-earned by 6-8 average American families) ahead of the mission (on behalf of those same people).
If I am sitting on my buttox to lock in a nice pension I have not earned, I will surely not get myself killed, will I? And then I can go and suck of the till of an economically corrupt, but transparent and legal, military industrial complex. Hell of a way to treat those non-coms, junior field officers and soldiers who had been killed during the surge. This was not the President. This Pentagon in-breeding cannot be placed on President Obama. GO BACK TO GEN. PETRAEUS and AMB. CROCKER as well as decorated veterans of field fighting.