Comprise

There are two things to note on the use of the verb comprise. First, it should be used in the sense of the whole comprises the parts, not the other way round.

(1) The family comprises six people.
(2) ?Six people comprise the family.

(The ? indicates oddity.)

The family (the whole) comes first, followed by comprises, and then six people (the parts).

The second concerns the use of comprise with of. It seems to be quite common, even among competent users of English:

AsiaOne - 9 August 2012

I would flag it as a mistake and use comprised without of:

(3) It comprised two members from other divisions and Miss Chang was roped in because the services they were going to hire were for her department.

(Just spotted another mistake in the original sentence. It should have been were and not was: "...because the services they were going to hire WERE for her department.") .