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Overview
The U.S.-funded program is designed to train and equip the Afghan National Police (ANP). Current assessments done by the Department of State in November 2006, show that the program is generally well conceived and well executed and they believe long-term U.S. assistance and funding, at least beyond 2010, is required to institutionalize the police force and establish a self-sustaining program.[1] The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ...
The program calls for building the Afghan National Police (ANP) by requiring a comprehensive, integrated approach that encompasses leadership training, sustaining institutions and organizations, and oversight and internal control mechanisms. It has rapidly evolved beyond just police readiness requirements and training to include sweeping institutional reform of the ANP through the Ministry of Interior.
The program won't be complete and successful until the Afghan criminal justice system, including law enforcement, judiciary, and corrections, has matured and is synchronized and coordinated from the national to the local level such that laws are standardized and uniformly applied. In the short term the ANP will function more as a security force than as a law enforcement organization.
Program Goals The intended end state of the U.S.-funded APP is an effective, well-organized, professional, multiethnic national police force that is trained and equipped to provide a safe and secure environment for the people of Afghanistan and a force committed to the rule of law. The ANP need to be led well, paid decent salaries, and trained and equipped to carry out their assigned security and law and order missions. The program’s goal is to establish a self sustaining ANP – a police force able to attract and retain qualified candidates and to operate with minimal international assistance.
Training The police training program has been well conceived and well executed. Trainees, instructors, and MoI officials are very positive about the program.9 The training program has made a good start in raising professional standards and competence. Processes and systems have been put in place to enhance readiness and improve how police recruits are vetted, paid, assigned, and equipped.
Seven Afghan National Policemen graduated the first phase of ANP training, administered by Nuristan Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and DynCorp International, on March 9 at the Nuristan PRT base of Kala Gush. The success of the program can be measured by the enthusiasm of the officers taking part in the course. A large number of the ANP in Eastern Nurestan Province, both new recruits and seasoned officers alike, will travel upwards of five hours one way from remote and rugged areas just to receive the training.[2] A Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) is an administrative unit of international aid to Afghanistan, consisting of a small operating base from which a group of sixty to more than one hundred civilians and military specialists work to perform small reconstruction projects or provide security for others involved in aid work. ...
DynCorp International (IPA: )[1] is a United States-based private military contractor (PMC) and aircraft maintenance company. ...
Nurestan (also spelled Nuristan or Nooristan) (Persian: نورستان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ...
History At a Geneva conference on Afghanistan security in April 2002, the United States and other donor countries agreed to support the rebuilding of the security forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. They established a “five pillars” approach, each to be led by a different nation. The United States took the lead to build the Afghan National Army (ANA). Germany took the lead for the police sector. The other pillars are the justice system (Italy), counternarcotics (Britain), and demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration (Japan). For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
Funding International donors have financed the bulk of the Afghan budget. The Afghan government does not have the revenue to pay its police. The international community has established a mechanism to pay ANP salaries through the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan, administered by the United Nations (U.N.) Development Program.
As of May 2006, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) funding for the ANP program approximates $1.1 billion for the period FY 2004-2007. Almost all of that funding has gone to the contract with DynCorp International. Assistant Secretary Anne W. Patterson The Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is a part of the Department of State within the United States government that advises the President, Secretary of State, other bureaus in the Department of State, and other departments and agencies within the U.S...
References - ^ Interagency Assessment of Afghanistan Police Training and Readiness. US DoS. Retrieved on 2007 April 13.
- ^ Caligiuri, Giovanni. Nuristan PRT brings professional training to ANP. BlackAnthem. Retrieved on 2007 April 13.
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...
April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...
April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ...
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