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2003-02-24

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1. “Notwithstanding those restraining factors, we are on course with our timetable. The groundwork has been laid for a functioning police force in Kabul. Since August 2002, the reopening of the Police Academy and the successful train-the-trainers programme, as well as international contributions from, inter alia, the Netherlands, India, Norway, Finland and Turkey, have enabled the start of standard training for Afghan police recruits. Approximately 1,500 are now enrolled at the Academy in courses for commissioned and non- commissioned officers and are thus ensuring the permanent nature of the building of a police force committed to the rule of law and to human rights. For the first time in more than 20 years in Afghanistan, classes include female police recruits.”

   2003-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4711 (2003) · source

2. “The principal source for police salaries - the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan (LOTFA), administered by the United Nations Development Programme - is struggling with insufficient funding, among other difficulties. The Fund's current size, $11 million, falls far short of its target of $65 million. Furthermore, international contributions towards police reconstruction do not fully meet current needs. The overall cost of reconstruction, equipment and training for the national police over the next four years has been estimated at roughly 180 million euros - close to $200 million - excluding salaries. That does not include the border police, for which budget figures have not yet been established. The targeted amount of donor participation has to date fallen short of the mark.”

   2003-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4711 (2003) · source

3. “We all know that not all of these conditions have been fully met in the past 12 months. While cooperation with the Afghan Transitional Administration and, in particular the Ministry of the Interior, was very good, the overall security situation has not significantly improved, with the exception of Kabul, where ISAF guarantees a reasonably secure environment. Regional cooperation in the effort to include all provinces in police training has not been uniformly satisfactory, and progress has also been difficult in the reconstruction of other security sectors, such as the army, and in the fight against illicit drugs. Financing has been a problem, though not a restricting factor as yet.”

   2003-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4711 (2003) · source

4. “This is detailed in annex I of the printed version of my statement that is being circulated. From the outset, it was very clear that certain framework conditions were going to be crucial to success. These are the full implementation of the Bonn Agreement by Afghanistan; Afghan ownership-based support for the Administration from international organizations and lead nations; the continuation of international support for the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan; sustained financial assistance from the international community; the continuation of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), at least on the current scale; diminished interference from regional leaders; and interaction in the fight against illicit drugs by the police force, justice system and armed forces.”

   2003-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4711 (2003) · source

5. “Based on that assessment and in coordination with the other lead nations in the security sector, the following three-stage timetable was established. In the first stage, starting with the Bonn process in late 2001 and running to the Emergency Loya Jirga in June 2002, the basic structures of the new Afghan national police were created in Kabul. A second stage, currently under way and set to last until parliamentary elections are held in 2004, comprises the consolidation and expansion of central structures in Kabul and the gradual extension of these structures into the provinces. A third stage will ensure the functionality of federal and provincial police forces and their interlinking with other security structures, as well as our gradual withdrawal as a lead nation by the end of 2005.”

   2003-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4711 (2003) · source

6. “Thus, the following tasks presented themselves: reorganization of the police force; restructuring the Ministry of the Interior and its relevant departments; reconstructing destroyed police buildings and re- equipping the police force; re-establishing a police training system; qualifying or demobilizing conscript patrolmen and "back-door policemen"; extension of the police rebuilding programme to all parts of the country and the creation of a nation-wide police structure; securing the role of a modern police force operating on the basis of new Afghan police legislation under the rule of law, in the professional ethos of the police and among the populace; and enforcing the State's monopoly on the use of force and the central Government's authority throughout the country.”

   2003-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4711 (2003) · source

7. “Many police officers had little or no training, were inadequately equipped, burdened with a multitude of non-police tasks and lacked health care and social security. Both the pay and the training systems had collapsed and relations with the public were often very poor The Interim Administration's control over the police, as in many other fields, was mostly limited to Kabul. Certain police functions were at times executed by informal "back-door policemen", mujahideen who were nominally affiliated with the police force but lacked adequate qualifications to fulfil police tasks and actual assignments. The so-called conscript patrolman system assigned men available for military service either to service in the army or to two compulsory years in the police force as patrolmen without pay.”

   2003-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4711 (2003) · source

8. “Mr. Braun: It is quite obvious that the reconstruction of a functioning police system throughout Afghanistan is a vital pillar of the international efforts to create security for that war-torn country. Against this background and at the request of the United Nations and the former Afghan Interim Administration, Germany assumed the lead role in rebuilding the Afghan police force - a task that is closely linked to the four other security sectors that have already been mentioned several times. What has been achieved so far in the police sector? An initial analysis carried out by German and Afghan experts in early 2002 showed that the Afghan police infrastructure had been largely destroyed in Kabul and throughout most of the country's provinces.”

   2003-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4711 (2003) · source