Fact Sheet Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Washington, DC January 31, 2008 Civilian Police and Rule of Law Programs Afghanistan The Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) supports maintenance and operation costs for seven INL Regional Training Centers (RTCs) in Kandahar, Konduz, Nangarhar, Paktya, Bamiyan, Herat and Balkh; a Central Training Center in Kabul for police; and a Forward Operating Base in Islam Qala. Support includes salary and all logistical support for more than 500 police training advisors and mentors deployed throughout Afghanistan and at the Ministry of Interior. The Bureau provides continued support for community policing initiatives, law enforcement, revenue-generation initiatives and the establishment of specialized police units such as the Family Response Unit and the Afghan National Civil Order Police. Mentors are deployed to more than 24 provinces and engage with local Afghan police officials to develop skills and capacity to extend the rule of law throughout Afghanistan. Training advisors work with Afghan police instructors to provide basic, advanced and specialized training at the RTCs. The basic eight-week course addresses core skills and knowledge required for general policing functions.

Advanced and specialized training courses including firearms, crowd control, literacy, computer skills, anti-corruption, and domestic violence are also implemented at the Regional Training Centers. Conquest Of The Sahaba Pdf Creator there. The Department of State, through INL, works with Afghan ministries to give a holistic reform framework. Through its police program, INL advises the Afghan Ministry of the Interior in its reform efforts, including a Pay and Rank Reform Initiative, which restructures, reorders and reforms the Ministry of Interior organizational and payroll systems. Rank reform has right-sized the Ministry by testing and vetting all senior officials; rank reform has been completed to the company level in the Afghan National Police (ANP).