Gen. David Petraeus, the commanding general of Multi-National Forces – Iraq, is provided an operations and intelligence brief about current military police and Iraqi police development activities, Aug. 29, 2008, by Col. Mark Spindler, the commander of Multi-National Division – Baghdad's 18th Military Police Brigade, a native of St. Louis, Mo., at the brigade's headquarters on Camp Liberty. The brigade's operational mission in Iraq is to assess, assist and train Iraqi police in order for the IP to take over primacy of police functions in Iraq.