Iraq

In the past, the Stabilisation Unit has been involved in supporting Basra Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), through provision of its first three team leaders, and advice and reviews.  Now that the Basra PRT has been handed over to the US, and relations between the UK and Iraq move towards a more normal bilateral relationship, the Stabilisation Unit's only remaining involvement in Iraq is to conduct the occasional review of programmes on behalf of its parent departments.  The most recent example of this was a review of the Ministry of Interior and Iraqi Police Service capacity building programme in November 2009.