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Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the United States and its allies have been working to give Iraq the tools that are needed to improve social order. In doing so, they have helped Iraq to become a self‐sufficient society that will be able to handle their own issues. Among the tools that were provided was the most up‐to‐date public safety training available in the world. Both Britain and the United States (as well as other nations and nongovernmental organizations) have provided ICS training to Iraqi public safety officials and nonprofits for many years. This initially appears to have begun in January of 2005 with law enforcement. By November of 2005, 836 law enforcement officers were trained in ICS (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2006).

While no information could be found on any laws requiring an IMS method to be used in disasters and emergencies, it is clear that public safety agencies in Iraq have been receiving ICS for quite some time. Additionally, there were numerous advertisements hiring fire service trainers to teach ICS to the Iraqi fire service around the same time. This leads us to believe that public safety agencies in Iraq are widely using the ICS system. No additional information could be found on the use of Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) in Iraq; however, it is likely that hospitals were also trained in its use as a part of the structural rebuild and resilience building capacity of Iraq.