For now, they are getting to know one another, as a prelude to going on joint patrols.

The plan would employ joint patrols to police the Serbian neighborhoods.

He said the joint patrols "will at least alleviate some of the tension."

Father Sam had demanded this as a condition for joint patrols.

Each of us will supply two armed guards for joint patrols outside the building.

But joint patrols were more than the Pentagon could stomach, officials said.

But he added they had "studied the problem of joint patrols and we are ready to leave."

The soldiers were on a joint patrol when they came under fire.

How the joint patrols will work is still anyone's guess.

But at that meeting the administration decided to hold off and try conducting joint patrols with Iraqi security forces.