Special Forces training Afghan police units

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Afghan Afghan civil order police cadets stand at attention during a graduation ceremony in Kabul on May 5. A new program will pair civil order police units with American special forces units.


Special Forces training Afghan police units
By Sean D. Naylor - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Jun 11, 2010 14:12:37 EDT

KABUL, Afghanistan — In an effort to reduce attrition rates in Afghan National Civil Order Police units — and improve those units’ performance ahead of the upcoming Kandahar offensive — senior military officials here have ordered U.S. special operations forces to provide additional training to 40 percent of the elite police force and to establish long-term partnerships with half the battalions they train.

To reduce the attrition that can run as high as 140 percent in a year, the special operations forces will convert the ANCOP battalions, or kandaks, to the same operational cycle that has worked to keep attrition rates low in the Afghan National Army’s Commando units, which are trained by and partnered with Special Forces.

Meanwhile, the ANCOP units trained by the special operations units are being sent to southern Afghanistan, to support the Marine operation to secure the town of Marjah in Helmand province and the upcoming set of missions — named Hamkari Baraye Kandahar, or Cooperation for Kandahar — in and around Kandahar city.

The plan for exactly how the special operations units will assist the ANCOP kandaks is evolving, said Army Brig. Gen. Scott Miller, commander of Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan, which has oversight over most U.S. special operations forces here that do not belong to the secretive Joint Special Operations Command. As things stand now, special operations units will train eight ANCOP kandaks, four of which they will partner with, he said. The remaining four will partner with conventional forces. (The mission does not involve standing the kandaks up from scratch — they already exist.)

Two kandaks trained by special operators are already partnered with Marine conventional forces in Helmand, said a spokesman for NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, the U.S.-led headquarters responsible for overseeing the training of all Afghan national security forces. (The spokesman declined to be identified.)



unhappycamper comment: :wtf:

[madrchsod]

1. how many years have we been training these guys?

[unhappycamper]

2. We spent $6 billion dollars trying to train Afghan cops for the last few years.

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