But now the force needs to be reconfigured for what the military calls "peace enforcement" operations: stopping looting, preventing bank robberies, chasing small groups of paramilitary fighters through crowded streets and conducting joint patrols with a new Baghdad police force, which is still being formed.
That film, which also starred Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, centres on a group of exaggeratedly sinister con men who use an elderly woman's boarding house as the base for a robbery operation.
"We were all to meet in Canada," Mr. Ressam testified, "and we were all to carry out operations of bank robberies and then get the money to carry out an operation in America".
Gen. Qassim Atta, a spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command, said the robberies helped finance networks like Al Qaeda.
The vendors, suspecting that the "operation" was really a robbery on the part of the plainclothes agents, fought back.
Specialty units, like those devoted to robberies, gangs, special operations or crime suppression, were involved in a high proportion of shootings: 9 out of 17 total in 2010 and 2011.
An example of planned script may be an instrumental script that has been selected for a specific operation, e.g. a bank robbery.
Finnegan was later sentenced to 12 years in prison for being part of a corrupt group in the Department's Special Operations Section that carried out robberies and home invasions in predominantly black neighborhoods, while McDermott was fired when the photo surfaced.
A21 NEW YORK/REGION B1-11 Office Worker Accused In Series of Bank Robberies A 47-year-old computer operations supervisor, Smithson Smith, was charged in 5 bank robberies, and detectives said he had committed 13 others near his office in Manhattan and near his home in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
European terrorist organizations, like the Baader Meinhof or the Brigate Rosse in the 1970s, often resorted to bank robberies to fund their operations.
