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6 results foundAuthor: United Nations Development Programme - Afghanistan: Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan Title: Police Perception Survey, 2009: The Afghan Perspective Summary: From July 9th to July 21st, 2009, the Afghan Center for Socio-Economic and Opinion Research (ACSOR) Surveys conducted a survey of public opinion for UNDP-Afghanistan on the subject of Police Performance and Public Safety perceptions. The main purpose of this study was to provide insight into the opinions of the people of Afghanistan with regard to various policing issues. ACSOR interviewed 5,156 Afghan respondents (2,827 males and 2,329 females), age 18 or older, across all 34 provinces of the country. In Afghanistan, security is the responsibility of several different groups. These include, but are not limited to, local law enforcement officials, Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan National Army (ANA) and the National Department of Security (NDS). While questions pertaining to the security of Afghanistan as a whole are addresed, the majority of the questions focused on police in regard to local performance. The main results of the survey showed more positive trends about the police performance than generally perceived. Almost half of Afghans (49%) think the police in their area are controlling crime and 42% strongly agree that the police performance has improved over the past year. 67% of respondents believe that if better trained, police performance is very likely to improve, 65% believe that it is very likely that having better knowledge of the law will lead to improvement, and 58% believe that it is very likely that an increase in pay would improve performance. Under the current circumstances, 34% somewhat agree that police officers should receive higher salaries than teachers. Afghans are hopeful that improvements in the police force are both possible and forthcoming. Respondents also answered affirmatively that interaction between officers and the public are ways to improve police performance, with 65% saying that community meetings between police and local residents would improve security, as would police assistance in the development of “watch groups” (54%). Moreover, 52-54% of Afghans would like to see more female law enforcement officers, particularly to address crimes against women and children. On the negative side, Afghans still believe that corruption is widely present in the police force, in particular amongst those respondents in the Central/Kabul region where 27% of respondents say “a lot” of police misuse their authority, compared to 21% nationwide. There was also a 42% pervasive response, particularly among shop keepers, that gifts and bribes are necessary when interacting with officers. About half of Afghans (51%) think that when performing their duties, police officers in their area are partial in favor of their tribe; however, 52% think that when it comes to recruiting new police cadets, high-ranking police officers are not partial. Regarding security in general, most Afghans (80%) reported that the security situation in their area is good; of this, 96% among those living in Kabul and surrounding provinces. However, respondents in the East and South, as well as rural respondents in general, were less likely to view security as good. Details: Kabul, Afghanistan: UNDP Afghanistan Country Office, 2009. 69p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 3, 2010 at: http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/UNDP_Afghanistan_PolicePerceptionSurvey2009.pdf Year: 2009 Country: Afghanistan URL: http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/UNDP_Afghanistan_PolicePerceptionSurvey2009.pdf Shelf Number: 120175 Keywords: Police CorruptionPolice-Community RelationsPolicing (Afghanistan)Public Opinion |
Author: Afghanistan Civil Society Forum Title: Baseline Study for Pilot Democratic Policing Across 8 Districts of Northern Kabul Province Summary: This Baseline Study was undertaken for the Pilot Democratic Policing [sic], being currently implemented by the Ministry of Interior and UNDP. The study documents existing experiences and expectations of the public from their local police; the public and police’s understanding of basic concepts of democratic policing; the role of shuras and other traditional justice system mechanisms; as well as both the public and police’s recommendations for improving police effectiveness and interface between the police and the community on a regular basis. The findings of the Study are based on 1,200 questionnaire responses by the public and police, and eight focus group discussions, undertaken across eight northern districts of Kabul province, including the. 17th police district of Kabul City , Mirbachakoot, Kalakaan, Guldara, Deh Sabz, Qarabagh, Shakar Dara, and Istalif. Very little variation was found among districts, so findings are not differentiated. Details: Kabul: Afghanistan Civil Society Forum, 2010. 46p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 4, 2010 at: Year: 2010 Country: Afghanistan URL: Shelf Number: 120190 Keywords: Police ReformPolice-Community RelationsPolicing (Afghanistan) |
Author: Reid, Rachel Title: “Just Don’t Call It a Militia” Impunity, Militias, and the “Afghan Local Police” Summary: 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. Details: New York: Human Rights Watch, 2011. 110p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 15, 2011 at: http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/afghanistan0911webwcover.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Afghanistan URL: http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/afghanistan0911webwcover.pdf Shelf Number: 122735 Keywords: MilitiasPolice AccountabilityPolicing (Afghanistan) |
Author: Rosenau, William Title: Police Mentoring in Afghanistan: 2007–2009 Summary: The role of the police is an important but largely overlooked aspect of contemporary counterinsurgency and stability operations. Although academic and policy specialists have examined the role of police in post-conflict environments, the question of how police should be organized, trained, and equipped for counterinsurgency campaigns has received little systematic attention.1 Similarly, US military doctrine and the professional military literature, while not ignoring the subject entirely, do not consider it in any systematic way.2 This gap is particularly ironic, given the prominent role that soldiers and Marines have played in training indigenous police and other security forces in counterinsurgency campaigns from Vietnam to Afghanistan. If the broader topic of police and counterinsurgency is under-examined, the subject of mentoring—that is, advising and training—foreign police forces is even more neglected. American Marines, soldiers, and other military personnel preparing to deploy to Afghanistan for the police mentoring mission have few sources of information and analysis available to them. This monograph addresses that gap. Using a series of ten vignettes, this report examines in depth the experiences of individual American and British soldiers and Marines who served as mentors in Afghanistan during the 2007-2009 period. Details: Alexandria, VA: CNA Analysis & Solutions, 2010. 98p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 19, 2011 at: http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/WEB%2012%2021%2010%20Police%20Mentoring%20online%20version.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Afghanistan URL: http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/WEB%2012%2021%2010%20Police%20Mentoring%20online%20version.pdf Shelf Number: 122785 Keywords: MentoringPolice TrainingPolicing (Afghanistan)Security Forces |
Author: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies Title: Reforming the Afghan National Police Summary: Afghanistan represents one of the largest attempts by the international community at state-building since the end of the Cold War. Nobody doubts the good intentions of the Afghan authorities or the international community in aiming to ensure the stability and long-term sustainability of Afghanistan. Large resources have been devoted to the rehabilitation of the country and progress has undoubtedly been achieved. Afghanistan is unrecognisable from the Taliban-run state at the beginning of this decade. Nevertheless, even by the Afghan government’s own admission, much work remains to be done. This monograph explores one aspect of the massive reconstruction effort; reform of the Afghan National Police (ANP). Much progress has been accomplished, from infrastructure built to the numbers of officers trained. But even by the Afghan government’s own admission, problems remain. Institutional and individual competence to tackle crime remains low, while corruption, police criminality and abuses of power are pervasive. Failing to provide sufficient civil security, the police are unable to fulfil their potential role as a key appendage to the reconstruction effort. Moreover, the acute security and justice deficit confronting Afghan communities presents an existential threat to the current post-Taliban system. Lawlessness is frequently cited as a primary reason for citizen disillusionment with the central government and growing sympathy for insurgent forces. Details: London: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies; Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2009. 190p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 21, 2011 at: http://www.fpri.org/research/nationalsecurity/afghanpolice/ReformingAfghanNationalPolice.pdf Year: 2009 Country: Afghanistan URL: http://www.fpri.org/research/nationalsecurity/afghanpolice/ReformingAfghanNationalPolice.pdf Shelf Number: 123076 Keywords: Police ReformPolicing (Afghanistan) |
Author: Planty, Donald J. Title: Police Transition in Afghanistan Summary: The forthcoming withdrawal of the NATO training mission in Afghanistan along with U.S. combat forces in 2014 has highlighted the failure to meet Afghanistan’s need for a national police service capable of enforcing the rule of law, controlling crime, and protecting Afghan citizens, despite a decade of effort. The Afghan National Police appears unlikely to be able to enforce the rule of law following the withdrawal because of its configuration as a militarized counterinsurgency force in the fight against the Taliban. Discussions are under way concerning the future of the ANP, but there is no consensus on the future size and mission of the police and no certainty about future sources of the funding, training, and equipment required. Because only two years remain before the deadline for withdrawal, it is imperative that the United States and the international community urgently address the challenge of transforming the ANP from a counterinsurgency force into a police service capable of enforcing the rule of law. Details: Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2013. 16p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 27, 2013 at: http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR322.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Afghanistan URL: http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR322.pdf Shelf Number: 127726 Keywords: Law EnforcementPolice ReformPolicing (Afghanistan) |