Both it and the Afghan police, of whom there are currently 84, 000, may end up being doubled.
"I would not want to draw conclusions about all the Afghan police from one single incident, " he added.
But the Afghan police told me they had no radios to call either the Afghan soldiers or the Americans.
This new role involved helping the Afghan police to plan operations, which often involved capturing narcotics and detaining insurgents.
Lockyear exclaimed that he had a Kalashnikov, and radioed to the Afghan police truck behind us to pick him up.
None of them believe that the Afghan police or army will be able to protect them, saying "they can't even protect themselves".
Like the Afghan police, Qasim, the Afghan platoon leader, had no radios.
It warns that the growth of a lucrative private security industry has drawn new recruits away from the Afghan police and army, where salaries are lower.
As the first insurgent gunned down the Afghan police officer, the militants' SUV rammed the gate of a seven-story unfinished high-rise construction project across the street and rushed inside.
The Minister retreated his support for the second phase of the project by referring to the transition process in which further responsibilities will be directed towards the Afghan police in near future.
He went on to blame "the handover to the United States" for what he said was the "tragedy that has unfolded" in Sangin with regards to the behaviour of the Afghan police.
But in Paktika, US officers say their partners are unlikely to be able to hold the area, and complain that the command between the Afghan police, army and intelligence service is fractured.
This tally does not include the Dec. 24 killing of an American civilian adviser by a female member of the Afghan police, because an investigation of the reportedly mentally unstable woman is continuing.
Within this perimeter, the team members pitched their tents, with the DynCorp men in one area and, in another area, the Afghan police, some of whom slept on cots in the backs of trucks.
The Afghan police force and the Afghan army should be constantly watched over and severe punishment and disciplinary actions should be taken against anyone who engages in corruption or illegal activities, like opium trade.
Though there are continued worries about corruption within the Afghan police force and army, and about infiltration into the security forces by insurgent sympathisers, this time the Afghan forces acquitted themselves well once the fighting started.
Given the failure of the Afghan police to protect the UN compound, a broader concern is whether the country's security forces will ever be up to the job of managing less benign areas of Afghanistan than Mazar-i-Sharif, which is far from the Taliban's heartland.
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We will continually evaluate where we are, what needs to happen, how do we build Afghan capacity, how do we train up the Afghan national police and the Afghan national army as part of a comprehensive national security force that gives us the ability, once areas are cleared, to be able to transfer, again, both from a governance and a military perspective.
"As in the election's first round, ISAF will only provide third-layer of security, reinforcing the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army in line with the security plan signed by the chairman of the Afghan Independent Election Commission along with representatives from the Afghan Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Defense, and ISAF in 2008, " Shanks said.
We can pull -- some of those troops obviously will be used for training, either of the Afghan national army or ultimately the Afghan national police.
A. and then with the State Department, Wankel helped create the Afghan Eradication Force, with troops of the Afghan National Police drawn from the Ministry of the Interior.
Rahman, the general in charge of the Afghan border police, were already waiting in a large office on the second floor of the two-story building when Prince arrived.
By late last year, uprising leaders said they had no choice but to accept government supervision and enroll the area's men into the Afghan Local Police, a self-defense force that is under the command of the Ministry of Interior in Kabul and mentored by U.S. special-operations forces.
Despite the considerable growth in the size of the Afghan National Police (ANP), some challenges remain such as high rate of illiteracy among the recruits.
In June, Lt Chesterman was asked to form a Police Advisory Team working with 1st Battalion Welsh Guards Battle Group to improve the mentoring of the Afghan National Police.
Behind the army came large earthmovers, to build checkpoints for the Afghan Border Police.
"The Afghan national police are an inadequate organisation riddled with corruption, " he said.
Clustered by a bed nearby on a recent day were members of the Afghan Local Police anti-Taliban defense force from the Howz-e-Madad village of Zhari district.
Mr. Karzai was a fierce opponent of plans to establish the Afghan Local Police irregular, community-based fighting units that are trained and mentored by U.S. Special Operations Forces.
"The Afghan National Police (ANP) is ill-equipped for this role, and has been targeted by the Taliban, with 1, 200 killed in 2007 and a similar toll expected in 2008, " the group added.
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