Afghanistan's Police

Afghanistan's Police
Author: Robert Perito
Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2009
Genre: Afghanistan
ISBN:

Introduction -- The Afghan National Police -- Key reasons for ANP shortcomings -- Conclusions and recommendations.

Afghan Local Police

Afghan Local Police
Author: John F. Sopko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2015-12-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781457871115

The Afghan Local Police (ALP), established in 2010 under the authority of the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MOI), works to enhance security in rural areas outside the reach of the Afghan National Army or the Afghan National Police. The ALP headquarters is in Kabul, but each ALP unit is controlled through its respective district and provincial police headquarters. As of August 2015, ALP consisted of 28,073 personnel across 150 districts. The ALP is supported by U.S. and coalition forces, with oversight from the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A). Based on current estimates, $121 million will be needed annually to sustain the program. This report (1) identifies challenges to the ALP's success; (2) assesses the MOI's internal controls and CSTC-A's oversight of salary disbursements to ALP personnel; and (3) determines how the U.S. government and the MOI plan to monitor and sustain the ALP program. Figures. This is a print on demand report.

Assessing the Ability of the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs to Support the Afghan Local Police

Assessing the Ability of the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs to Support the Afghan Local Police
Author: Jefferson P. Marquis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780833094506

RAND researchers assess the ability of the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs to support the Afghan Local Police program; evaluate the range of logistics, personnel management, and training activities essential to the success of the program's local security mission; and identify lessons from support to the program that might prove useful when undertaking similar efforts to help build local security forces in the future.

"Just Don't Call it a Militia"

Author: Rachel Reid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2011
Genre: Afghanistan
ISBN: 9781564328069

"With US plans to withdraw troops and hand over security to the Afghan government by 2014, the US and Afghan governments have embraced a high-risk strategy of arming tens of thousands of men in a new village-level defense force. Called the Afghan Local Police (ALP), it is the latest in a long line of new security forces and militias the US and other international forces have worked with in recent years to pave the way for the exit of international troops. The Afghan government has also recently reactivated various irregular armed groups, particularly in the north. Just Don't Call It a Militia, based primarily on interviews in Kabul, Wardak, Herat, and Baghlan, with additional interviews in Kandahar, Kunduz, and Uruzgan, first surveys attempts over the past decade to create civilian defense forces in Afghanistan. While some efforts have been more successful than others, all have at times been hijacked by local strongmen or by ethnic or political factions, spreading fear, exacerbating local political tensions, fueling vendettas and ethnic conflict, and in some areas even playing into the hands of Taliban insurgents, thus subverting the very purpose for which the militias were created. Against this backdrop, we then provide an account of the ALP one year after it was created, detailing instances in which local groups are again being armed without adequate oversight or accountability. We conclude that unless urgent steps are taken to prevent ALP units from engaging in abusive and predatory behavior, the ALP could exacerbate the same perverse dynamics that subverted previous efforts to use civilian defense forces to advance security and public order"--Cover, p. [4].

Village Stability Operations and the Afghan Local Police

Village Stability Operations and the Afghan Local Police
Author: Mark Moyar
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2014-10
Genre: Counterinsurgency
ISBN: 9781099024702

Dr. Mark Moyar outlines the history of the Village Stability Operations (VSO) program and its Afghan partner program, the Afghan Local Police (ALP). Based on years of extensive research within Afghanistan, Dr. Moyar covers VSO and ALP from their inception through the end of VSO and the transition of the ALP to complete Afghan control. He notes that the programs came into existence out of recognition that exclusive reliance on direct-action counterterrorism had been unable to stop the Taliban and other Afghan insurgent groups. He highlights the importance of understanding the human terrain and the strategic context when attempting to mobilize populations against insurgents and explains the challenges of empowering qualified and motivated Afghan leaders at multiple levels. He also emphasizes the importance of USSOF leadership and describes the challenges encountered in transitioning the ALP to complete Afghan control and its implications for the transition of future SOF programs.

Investigating Corruption in the Afghan Police Force

Investigating Corruption in the Afghan Police Force
Author: Danny Singh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-08
Genre:
ISBN: 1447354664

Based on unprecedented empirical research, this book assesses how institutional legacy and external intervention have shaped the structural conditions of corruption in the Afghan police force and state. Filling a major gap in the literature, this is an invaluable contribution to the literature and to anti-corruption policy in developing states.

Acknowledging Limits

Acknowledging Limits
Author: William Rosenau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN:

"This monograph explores police mentoring in Afghanistan by U.S. and U.K. military forces during the 2007-2009 period. In a series of 10 vignettes, this study examines efforts to advise, train, and support elements of the Afghan National Police (ANP) in northern, eastern, and southern Afghanistan. These vignettes explore the mentoring of ANP units, as well as the advising of individual chiefs of police at the district and province levels."--P. vii.

Assessment of U. S. Government and Coalition Efforts to Develop the Afghan Local Police

Assessment of U. S. Government and Coalition Efforts to Develop the Afghan Local Police
Author: Department of Defense
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781482331882

This is a continuation of a series of Congressionally mandated, command requested, and/or self-generated reports published by the Office of Inspector General's Special Plans and Operations Directorate that focus on the train and equip missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. General areas discussed in these reports include: Accountability of weapons transferred to the Iraqi and Afghan Security Forces, Accountability of night vision devices transferred to the Iraqi Security Forces, Effectiveness/responsiveness of the Foreign Military Sales system in support of the Iraqi and Afghan Security Forces, Logistics development of the Iraqi and Afghan Security Forces, Effectiveness of U.S. and Coalition efforts to develop the Iraqi and Afghan Security Forces, and Review of the Coalition Support Fund Program and other DoD security assistance/cooperation programs with Pakistan. On August 15, 2011, the DoDIG announced the “Assessment of U.S. Government and Coalition Efforts to Develop the Afghan Local Police,” (Project No. D2011-D00SPO-0277-000). The objectives of this assessment were to determine whether: Planning and operational implementation efforts by U.S./Coalition Forces to recruit, train, advise and assist in the development of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) was effective. This included evaluating output/outcome at ALP locations at various stages of their life cycle to determine the effectiveness of U.S./Coalition involvement in developing the ALP and Ministry of Interior (MoI) capability to manage the program. Plans, training, preparation and designated missions of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)/United States Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A)/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A), ISAF Joint Command (IJC), and Coalition Forces Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan (CFSOCC-A) to train, advise and assist in the development of the ALP are integrated across all levels of U.S./Coalition commands/staffs, as well as between Coalition commands and the MoI/Afghan National Police (ANP).