The British government is to send a senior Northern Ireland police officer to help train Iraqi police.
Mr Stephen White, an assistant chief constable from the PSNI, will be posted to the southern city of Basra to set up a training programme.
Last year, Mr White was in charge of security at Drumcree, when a number of his officers were injured battling loyalist demonstrators.
Six British military policemen training Iraqis were killed and eight soldiers were wounded in two separate incidents last week near the eastern Iraqi city of Amarah.
Back in May, the Chief Constable of Hampshire, Mr Paul Kernaghan - as part of an international team of police experts - visited Iraq for a week and provided the British government with a report of the security situation in Iraq.
"I do not see an environment in which I can recommend the sending of unarmed British police officers . . . it is too dangerous," Mr Kernaghan told the Financial Times.