sentences:  The military aspect was to remove, to root out the corruption that plagued the Iraqi police as Shi'ite militias began infiltrating them.Forces consisting of "transition teams" of Royal Military Police were planned to be inserted into local police stations looking for those "unable or unwilling to perform their duties", the teams to operate in each station for up to 30 days.Although comparisons have been made with the U.S. and Iraqi security drive in Baghdad named "Operation Together Forward", where the militias are first removed and then civil affairs projects follow, the problems in Basra were significantly different; with an almost wholly Shia population, the sectarian violence and Sunni insurgency seen in Baghdad are not major issues, but criminality and factional in-fighting were.