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Establishing internal security
Rebuilding the police force in Afghanistan
Context
Maintaining security as a guarantee of stability is an essential
precondition if the people of Afghanistan are to recognise the
legitimacy of their government. Together with other international donors, Germany is supporting Afghanistan in building
up a police force that can ensure internal security. Working on
behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
has put in place a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) to support police reform in Afghanistan. Besides the German Police
Project Team (GPPT), a European Union Police Mission (EUPOL)
for Afghanistan has also been set up to bring together under
one roof the various European contributions to reform the
police force. The International Police Coordination Board (IPCB)
headed by an Afghan representative strengthens Afghan ownership. The PIU serves other donors as a platform for funding
measures put forward by EUPOL and the IPCB.
Objective
Activities nationwide
By the end of 2014, the Afghan police force should be in a
position to guarantee internal security without international
assistance. Working on behalf of the German Federal Foreign
Office (AA), GIZ is supporting the Afghan Government in
ensuring that the police force is able to carry out its role
sustainably. The necessary infrastructure is also to be put in
place.
Programme:
Project Implementation Unit (PIU) rebuilding the police force in Afghanistan
Commissioned
by:
German Federal Foreign Office (AA)
Partner:
Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoIA),
Attorney General’s Office (AGO)
Results
Implementing
organisation:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Provinces:
Nationwide
Programme
objective:
To support the Afghan Government by
building new police infrastructure and
through police literacy training and cooperation
with the public prosecution authorities.
The provision of training premises, managed and maintained
for the long term, means that the Afghan police force is increasingly able to run its own training courses. The training provided
is enabling police officers to carry out their role with increasing
professionalism. In the long run, this will improve the security
situation, which means the project is making a major contribution to stabilising the country.
Left: The Faculty of Border Police at the Police Academy in Kabul
Right: Literacy training for police officers in northern Afghanistan
Photos: left © GIZ; right © Dennis Thalmann
Contact
Wolf Plesmann
Head of Programme
‘Project Implementation Unit
(PIU) - rebuilding the police force
in Afghanistan’
E [email protected]
‘Literacy takes individuals
from darkness into light.’
Only an efficient and effective police force can win the trust
of the people. Police officers need to be well trained and have
access to appropriate advice, but they also need premises, training centres and excellent equipment. To this end, GIZ mainly
contracts local construction companies and businesses, creating
jobs and income. It is also supporting the Afghan Government in
the following ways:
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New police academies, training centres and police headquarters are being built and equipped.
Since July 2009, a literacy programme has been operating in
the North of the country, targeting substantial improvements
in the literacy rate, which is currently around 30 per cent.
As well as reading and writing skills, police officers receive
specialist training, for example in how to apply the current
law. Since July 2013, in close collaboration with the Afghan
Ministry of Interior Affairs, GIZ has been gradually expanding
the range of courses available in the other regions.
The project ‘Coordination of Police and Prosecutor Training
(CoPP)’ supports cooperation between the police and the
public prosecutor’s office. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Netherlands is financing the project and GIZ is
implementing it in cooperation with EUPOL. A group of 30
specially trained public prosecutors, judges, defence counsels
and police chiefs are training 800 of their colleagues across
the country to cooperate on criminal investigations in line
with the principles of the rule of law.
GIZ is also supporting selected EUPOL activities, such as
the production of the television series ‘Inspector Amanullah’.
The two main characters are the female Inspector Malalai
and the male Inspector Amanullah. They conduct their
investigations according to the rule of law and present police
work as a career that is attractive to women as well as men.
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Facts and figures
Training institutions established by GIZ
Faculty of Border Police at the Police Academy in Kabul
Police training centres in Kabul, Kunduz, Mazar-e Sharif
and Feyzabad
§ A branch of the Police Academy training centre for
middle-ranking officers in Mazar-e Sharif
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Police infrastructure put in place by GIZ
§ Afghan National Civil Order Police headquarters in Kabul
§ Traffic police headquarters in Kabul
§ Border police office at Kabul International Airport
§ Border police station and accommodation at Mazar-e
Sharif International Airport
§ Provincial police headquarters in Feyzabad
§ Provision of infrastructure and equipment in
northern Afghanistan
Literacy training
§ More than 40,000 police officers in the nine provinces
covered by the ISAF Regional Command North and in
13 further provinces have taken part in short or long
courses.
Coordination of Police and Prosecutor Training (CoPP)
§ More than 800 police officers and public prosecutors
have taken part in CoPP training courses in 13 locations.
Cooperation with EUPOL
§ 40 episodes of the TV detective series ‘Inspector
Amanullah’ have been produced, as well as a longer
version. These are used as training videos.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
In cooperation
with
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom
of the Netherlands
GIZ Country Office Kabul | Afghanistan
On behalf of
German Federal Foreign Office (AA)
Registered offices Bonn and Eschborn
Address of the
AA office
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Edited by
Heidi Herrmann | GIZ
Viola Reinhard | Eschborn | [email protected]
Design and layout
Barbara Reuter | Oberursel | [email protected]
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As at
April 2014
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