The Ministry of Interior /Civil Defense, in coordination with DMA, carried out tests for examine and evaluate the staff of EOD detachments/Civil Defense Directorates throughout Iraq over a period of (30) days.

The Director General of DMA, Eng. Dhafir Mahmood, said that the tests were within the cooperation frameworks between the planning and information department in our directorate and EOD department in Civil Defense Directorate, as the number of participants in these tests reached(310) from officers and other ranks of the General Civil Defense Directorate. 

Mahmood added that the tests were carried out in accordance with the tasks and duties of EOD detachments and in accordance with IMAS (90:30) for humanitarian purposes snd SOPs which are followed up in such contexts.