President Karzai Held Meeting on the Reform
of the Afghan National Police
Office of the Spokesman
06/23/2005
Presidential Palace, Kabul - H.E. Hamid
Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, chaired
a meeting today of the joint Afghan and International group
working on the reform of the Afghan National Police.
Ali Ahmad Jalali, Minister of Interior of Afghanistan,
Mohammad Sarwar Danesh, Minister of Justice, Dr. Zalmay Rasoul,
National Security Advisor, Habibullah Qaderi, Minister of Counter
Narcotics, Amrullah Saleh, Director of National Director for
Security and Yossuf Nooristani, Deputy Defence Minsiter attended
this meeting from the Afghan side.
On the International side, ambassadors and representatives
of countries involved in national police reform area, including
Germany, USA, UK, Canada, Italy and Japan were joined by representatives
from the Coalition Forces, the International Security Assistance
Force and the United Nations attended the meeting.
The President was briefed by the group on the
new comprehensive plan for reforming and rebuilding the Afghan
National Police. The plan provides for a new force structure,
equipment and infrastructure and measures to reform the pay
and rank structure, provide entry level training as well as
mentoring and on-the-job training for Afghanistan new police
force. The police force’s pay reform will be based on
parity with Afghan National Army.
According to the timeline provided in the plan,
the entry level training will be completed by December 2005,
while by December 2008 the police force will be effectively
trained and fully equipped. The remaining infrastructure will
be put in place by December 2011.
Germany will continue to be the lead nation in
the Afghan National Police reform, while substantial levels
of funding will also be provided by the United States, with
further important contributions from the UK, Japan, Italy and
other donors.
