Police in Baghdad on 10 December announced that robbers had stolen about $500,000 during a raid on a bank in a northern part of the city. 'Thieves managed to get hold of one NID 1,000 million ($500,000) on Tuesday [10 December] from a bank in Kadimiyah because the policemen, who are supposed to guard it, were not there and left the entrance without protection,' local police spokesman Ahmad Ibrahim told Iraqi television. Ibrahim added that the security guards should have been able to stop the robbery. 'We will take sanctions against these policemen and we have some information to help find the robbers and bring them to justice,' he said.