Afghan National Police

...often skims 30 percent off the top of his meager salary, according to police on the street. Posted on Fri, Nov. 20, 2009 12:01 PM Afghan police are weak link in security force Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained,...

In this article: Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Afghan police, Kandahar, Banana, and Kabul

...were in power between 1996 and 2001 before being ousted in a US-led offensive. A lack of training and light weaponry, have made the Afghan police an easier target than the army, which is better trained and equipped. The more than 100,000...

In this article: Afghan police, Taliban, Taliban insurgency, NATO, Afghanistan, Arghandab, Kandahar, and Kandahar Province

...little attention is being paid to a promising dimension of our efforts to foster reform -- a much better approach to building the Afghan police force. This anticorruption agenda does not reduce the need to battle kleptocratic trends in...

In this article: Afghan police, NATO, Hamid Karzai, Stanley McChrystal, Michael O'Hanlon, Barack Obama, Afghan army, Taliban, and Afghanistan

...US troops and an unknown number of civilian contractors, despite heightened security ahead of Hamid Karzai's inauguration next week. Afghan police said a white Toyota Corolla exploded close to America's Camp Phoenix, on one of the most...

In this article: Suicide, Kabul, UN, US, Taleban, Afghan police, NATO, Afghan army, and Toyota Corolla

...use." Partnering British troops with the ANP came under the spotlight after the shooting dead of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman last week. Lt Col de Quincey Adams said: "The ANP are the interface between the government and...

In this article: Afghan National Army, Taliban, Dragoon guards, and ANA

...in a raid in Kandahar, a stronghold of Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan. In a statement Tuesday, military officials said Afghan National Police and NATO forces recovered 500,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which is...

In this article: NATO, Taliban insurgents, Kandahar, Afghanistan, and U.S.

A SMALL group of men is sitting on a mat outside a mud building drinking hot tea. To the western eye they look innocent enough but the Afghan police suspect they are insurgents. British troops are out on a foot patrol with the Afghan...

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...operation in Surobi, 30 miles north-east of Kabul. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP With his 9mm Smith and Wesson at the ready, the Afghan police chief strode through the bazaar of rickety wooden stalls, grabbed a hapless shopkeeper by...

In this article: Kabul, Taliban, Afghanistan, NATO, UN, Northern Ireland, and Suicide

...the paid of insurgents and were more loyal to their tribes than the Afghan government. British officers say that among low-ranking Afghan police, and particularly in more rural areas away from central control, there is widespread corruption...

In this article: Taliban, Opium, Afghanistan, Heroin, Pakistan, and United Nations

...Security Assistance Force, which is led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Six additional British soldiers and two Afghan police officers were wounded in the attack, according to a statement issued by the ministry and NATO...

In this article: Stanley A. McChrystal, Afghanistan, Royal Military Police, Grenadier Guards, Taliban insurgency, U.S. Army, and NATO