Thi-Qar police prepare security plan for Eidul Adha

THI-QAR / IraqiNews.com: The Thi-Qar police department has prepared a security plan, in which all security authorities will take part, during Eidul Adha the (Greater Bairam), the media director of the Thi-Qar police said on Friday. “The plan envisages the deployment of police forces and setting up checkpoints in the main streets throughout Thi-Qar,” Colonel Sadeq al-Mishrefawi told IraqiNews.com. Thi-Qar, 380 km south of Baghdad , has an area of 12,900 square kilometers (4,980.7 sq mi). In 2003 the estimated population of the governorate was 1,454,200 people. Thi-Qar was the second Iraqi province where security responsibilities were transferred from the Multi-National Force (MNF) to the Iraqis. The province’s capital is the city of al-Nassiriya. It also includes the ancient Sumerian ruins of Ur , Eridu, Lagash and Ngirsu. Before 1976 the province was known as al-Muntafiq. SH (P) 1