European Union Police Mission can refer to various European Union police support operations:
Missions
Completed missions
European Union Police Mission in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (EUPOL Proxima)
European Union Police Mission in Kinshasa (DRC) (EUPOL Kinshasa)
EUPOL RD Congo, the successor to EUPOL Kinshasa
European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM), the European Union's mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina that aided the local police organizations, and was one of a number of European Union Police Missions worldwide
European Union Police Mission in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (EUPOL Proxima)
European Union Police Mission in Kinshasa (DRC) (EUPOL Kinshasa)
EUPOL RD Congo, the successor to EUPOL Kinshasa
European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM), the European Union's mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina that aided the local police organizations, and was one of a number of European Union Police Missions worldwide
EUPOL Afghanistan is a European Union mission to support and train police in Afghanistan, and improve the rule of law.
Background
EUPOL Afghanistan is part of the European Union's External Action service. It was set up to help overcome serious policing deficiencies in Afghanistan, following recent conflicts; improving the security sector is an important part of the international community's work to rebuild Afghanistan. Afghan policing was affected by serious problems of training, organisation, and corruption; they are also a major target for insurgents.
Activities
EUPOL does not do actual policing; it supports and trains Afghan police, public prosecutors, and officials from the Ministry of the Interior. They have even helped set up an Afghan police detective series, "Commissar Amanullah", which helps reach out to the public, where literacy levels are still low.
EUPOL Afghanistan has also set up a police training college which offers various courses; As of September 2012 at least 4000 Afghan police have attended. Responsibility for training has gradually been handed over to Afghan instructors.
Afghanistani/æfˈɡænᵻstæn/ (Pashto/Dari: افغانستان, Afġānistān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia. It has a population of approximately 32 million, making it the 42nd most populous country in the world. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east; Iran in the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north; and China in the far northeast. Its territory covers 652,000km2 (252,000sqmi), making it the 41st largest country in the world.
The War in Afghanistan (or the American war in Afghanistan) is the period in which the United States invaded Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks. Supported initially by close allies, they were later joined by NATO beginning in 2003. It followed the Afghan Civil War's 1996–2001 phase. Its public aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda and to deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban from power. Key allies, including the United Kingdom, supported the U.S. from the start to the end of the phase. This phase of the War is the longest war in United States history.
Afghanis-tan(あふがにすタン,Afuganisu-tan, see note on name below) or Afghanistan is a Japanese yonkomamanga, originally published as a webcomic, by Timaking (ちまきing). It is also the name of the heroine of the manga. The manga is nicknamed Afgan(あふがん,Afugan)
Each yonkoma strip is accompanied by an "Afghan Memo" that explains in prose some of the background and history of the nations depicted. Additional pages give short biographies of the characters.
EU trains Afghan police to make bombs... with water (raw video)
Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique.
The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so.
The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value...
published: 12 Jan 2011
EU trains Afghan police to make water bombs
Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique.
The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so.
The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value...
published: 12 Jan 2011
European Union ends Police Mission in Afghanistan VOA Ashna
به چینل یوتیوب تلویزیون آشنا بپیوندید و در کنار خبرهای داغ روز، صدها ویدیوی جالب و دیدنی دیگر را تماشا کنید. خبرهای تلویزیون آشنا را از وبسایت، فیسبوک، تویتر و انستاگرام ما نیز دنبال کرده می توانید:
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published: 14 Nov 2016
EU extends Afghanistan mission to 2014
http://www.euronews.com/ The Afghan National Police - the ANP - can count on EU training until coalition troops withdraw in December 2014 - an extension of 18 months.
Civilian Operations Commander, Hansjörg Haber visited Afghanistan to plan for the extension of the current EU Police Mission mandate - or EUPOL, with an original end date of 31st May 2013.
A key issue is the infiltration of police units by taliban insurgents, who then target their western trainers.
Lt General Mohammed Ayoub Salangi
Kabul Police Chief:
"The enemy knows that the ANP is developing day by day and they are very concerned; that's why they continue to focus their attacks on the ANP."
Besides Kabul, EUPOL has training units in the
main provinces, namely in Kunduz where courses are given in cooperation wi...
published: 15 Nov 2012
The EU and Afghanistan: Supporting renewal through security
While Afghanistan has made notable progress, the country continues to face insurgency within its own borders, and the spill over effects of a new wave of violence in neighbouring Pakistan. This volatile situation is followed closely on the ground by the EU, which has a significant presence throughout the country, combining social and economic development projects with an overall focus on the long-term aspects of security.
This video was produced by Mostra on behalf of the European Union.
published: 15 Jan 2008
euronews reporter - Reforming Afghan police
http://www.euronews.com/ The police look for explosives, guns and drugs around Kabul's "Ring of Steel". This is a line of 25 checkpoints encircling the capital of Afghanistan, set up as part of the European Union police training mission EUPOL in 2007. It is part of the effort in the transition from a para-military force to a civilian one aimed at serving the rule of law. It means changing mentalities in a country tormented by conflict for the last four decades.
Kabul policeman Amir Shah, an example of the new generation, said: "I want to serve my country to my last drop of blood. My family is happy with this."
Police officers are main targets for insurgents here - the Taliban. Many ordinary Afghans fear the departure of NATO troops in 2014 will unleash a full-blown civil war. The cost of...
published: 07 Dec 2012
Afghanistan: European police at work
Watch European Union police officers at work in Afghanistan.
published: 22 Apr 2008
Suicide car bomb attack near headquarters of European police training mission
(5 Jan 2015) A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul on Monday, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others nearby.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the first against a foreign target in the Afghan capital in 2015.
According to a statement from the EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) the driver of the car packed with explosives apparently targeted a convoy of mission vehicles near its headquarters on the eastern outskirts of Kabul in the early afternoon on Monday.
"The vehicle's occupants were uninjured," EUPOL said on its Facebook page.
The mission funds and trains Afghanistan's 157,000-strong police force.
The spokesman for the Kabul police chief, Hashmat Stanekzai confirmed the casualties.
A ...
published: 03 Aug 2015
At least 3 dead in Taliban suicide attack on EU personnel in Afghanistan
The latest in a wave of attacks in Afghanistan has targeted the European Union.
Extremist group the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on a "European Union Police Mission":http://www.eupol-afg.eu/ (EUPOL) vehicle in the capital Kabul.
At least three people have died, officials say.
A EUPOL spokeswoman said all personnel were safe, but confirmed another person travelling in the vehicle had been killed.
Two Afghan civilian bystanders are also thought to have di…
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Interior Minister comment on bomb blast, EUPOL taking over police training
(17 Jun 2007)
++SOUND QUALITY AS INCOMING++
1. Wide of opening ceremony of EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) in Kabul
2. Mid of EU's envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell (left) and Afghan Interior Minister Zara Ahmad Moqbil
3. Various of ceremony
4. Attendees clapping
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francesc Vendrell, EU's envoy to Afghanistan:
"Today, we have witnessed another cowardly attack against the police forces of this country. And I think the fact that the police forces are the target and - not only today but in the past - attests to the importance of the police to their key role in ensuring the security of this country.
6. Close-up of arm badge reading EUPOL Afghanistan
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francesc Vendrell, EU's envoy to Afghanistan:
"And it makes it all the mor...
Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police o...
Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique.
The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so.
The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value of education.
The European Union started its police training mission in Afghanistan in June 2007. Canada, Croatia, New Zealand and Norway also take part in the EUPOL training mission.
After more than three years, EUPOL Afghanistan is still not able to train the numbers of Afghan police officers that it had envisaged. This because not enough police training officers are seconded by the EU member states.
So, instead of directly training officers, the EUPOL mission focuses on 'training the trainers' and expects the Afghan trainers to take home the lessons learned at EUPOL.
The European mission has trained several hundred trainers. It has a budget of about 55 million euro per year.
The United States since 2001 has made available a budget of some 6 billion dollars for their attempt to train more than 13.000 police officers
This video material was filmed in July 2009, when in Kabul on assignment for the European Council. The footage of the water bomb class was never used in any of the official video reports on the EUPOL mission.
Background:
http://www.euractiv.com/en/search/apachesolr_search/EUPOL?solrsort=created%20des
Mission website:
http://www.eupol-afg.eu/
Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique.
The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so.
The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value of education.
The European Union started its police training mission in Afghanistan in June 2007. Canada, Croatia, New Zealand and Norway also take part in the EUPOL training mission.
After more than three years, EUPOL Afghanistan is still not able to train the numbers of Afghan police officers that it had envisaged. This because not enough police training officers are seconded by the EU member states.
So, instead of directly training officers, the EUPOL mission focuses on 'training the trainers' and expects the Afghan trainers to take home the lessons learned at EUPOL.
The European mission has trained several hundred trainers. It has a budget of about 55 million euro per year.
The United States since 2001 has made available a budget of some 6 billion dollars for their attempt to train more than 13.000 police officers
This video material was filmed in July 2009, when in Kabul on assignment for the European Council. The footage of the water bomb class was never used in any of the official video reports on the EUPOL mission.
Background:
http://www.euractiv.com/en/search/apachesolr_search/EUPOL?solrsort=created%20des
Mission website:
http://www.eupol-afg.eu/
Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police o...
Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique.
The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so.
The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value of education.
The European Union started its police training mission in Afghanistan in June 2007. Canada, Croatia, New Zealand and Norway also take part in the EUPOL training mission.
After more than three years, EUPOL Afghanistan is still not able to train the numbers of Afghan police officers that it had envisaged. This because not enough police training officers are seconded by the EU member states.
So, instead of directly training officers, the EUPOL mission focuses on 'training the trainers' and expects the Afghan trainers to take home the lessons learned at EUPOL.
The European mission has trained several hundred trainers. It has a budget of about 55 million euro per year.
The United States since 2001 has made available a budget of some 6 billion dollars for their attempt to train more than 13.000 police officers
This video material was filmed in July 2009, when in Kabul on assignment for the European Council. The footage of the water bomb class was never used in any of the official video reports on the EUPOL mission.
Background:
http://www.euractiv.com/en/search/apachesolr_search/EUPOL?solrsort=created%20des
Mission website:
http://www.eupol-afg.eu/
Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique.
The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so.
The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value of education.
The European Union started its police training mission in Afghanistan in June 2007. Canada, Croatia, New Zealand and Norway also take part in the EUPOL training mission.
After more than three years, EUPOL Afghanistan is still not able to train the numbers of Afghan police officers that it had envisaged. This because not enough police training officers are seconded by the EU member states.
So, instead of directly training officers, the EUPOL mission focuses on 'training the trainers' and expects the Afghan trainers to take home the lessons learned at EUPOL.
The European mission has trained several hundred trainers. It has a budget of about 55 million euro per year.
The United States since 2001 has made available a budget of some 6 billion dollars for their attempt to train more than 13.000 police officers
This video material was filmed in July 2009, when in Kabul on assignment for the European Council. The footage of the water bomb class was never used in any of the official video reports on the EUPOL mission.
Background:
http://www.euractiv.com/en/search/apachesolr_search/EUPOL?solrsort=created%20des
Mission website:
http://www.eupol-afg.eu/
به چینل یوتیوب تلویزیون آشنا بپیوندید و در کنار خبرهای داغ روز، صدها ویدیوی جالب و دیدنی دیگر را تماشا کنید. خبرهای تلویزیون آشنا را از وبسایت، فیسبوک، تویتر و ...
به چینل یوتیوب تلویزیون آشنا بپیوندید و در کنار خبرهای داغ روز، صدها ویدیوی جالب و دیدنی دیگر را تماشا کنید. خبرهای تلویزیون آشنا را از وبسایت، فیسبوک، تویتر و انستاگرام ما نیز دنبال کرده می توانید:
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به چینل یوتیوب تلویزیون آشنا بپیوندید و در کنار خبرهای داغ روز، صدها ویدیوی جالب و دیدنی دیگر را تماشا کنید. خبرهای تلویزیون آشنا را از وبسایت، فیسبوک، تویتر و انستاگرام ما نیز دنبال کرده می توانید:
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http://www.euronews.com/ The Afghan National Police - the ANP - can count on EU training until coalition troops withdraw in December 2014 - an extension of 18 m...
http://www.euronews.com/ The Afghan National Police - the ANP - can count on EU training until coalition troops withdraw in December 2014 - an extension of 18 months.
Civilian Operations Commander, Hansjörg Haber visited Afghanistan to plan for the extension of the current EU Police Mission mandate - or EUPOL, with an original end date of 31st May 2013.
A key issue is the infiltration of police units by taliban insurgents, who then target their western trainers.
Lt General Mohammed Ayoub Salangi
Kabul Police Chief:
"The enemy knows that the ANP is developing day by day and they are very concerned; that's why they continue to focus their attacks on the ANP."
Besides Kabul, EUPOL has training units in the
main provinces, namely in Kunduz where courses are given in cooperation with dutch and german military forces from NATO.
Crime scene investigation is one of the topics taught. Law students are invited to observe; including female ones specifically interested in working in the field of gender violence.
Farkhunda Karimi
Lawyer and program officer
"When I took the decision that I wanted to become a lawyer, definitely there were a lot of challenges to reach this position. But I decided, because our people, especially our females, that one female needs a female lawer, because they can say their problems more easily to a female lawyer."
The annual EU budget for this mission is around 60 million euros, on top of another 200 million euros on development programs. After 10 years, the EU hopes to leave some sort of legacy.
Hansjörg Haber
EU Civilian Operations Commander
"Sustainablility is important: train the trainer, so that the Afghans can continue the work themselves. Even without us. And concentrate on a few centres outside Kabul for doing the training."
It's welcome news for the Afghan government, but it needs to be ready to stand alone.
Isabel da Silva
euronews:
"The EU civilian operations commander informed the Afghan government that the mission can be extended, but international troops will finish the mission in 2014. The mission will therefore need to be restructured and so he asked the government in Kabul for proposals. The final decision will be taken next summer."
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http://www.euronews.com/ The Afghan National Police - the ANP - can count on EU training until coalition troops withdraw in December 2014 - an extension of 18 months.
Civilian Operations Commander, Hansjörg Haber visited Afghanistan to plan for the extension of the current EU Police Mission mandate - or EUPOL, with an original end date of 31st May 2013.
A key issue is the infiltration of police units by taliban insurgents, who then target their western trainers.
Lt General Mohammed Ayoub Salangi
Kabul Police Chief:
"The enemy knows that the ANP is developing day by day and they are very concerned; that's why they continue to focus their attacks on the ANP."
Besides Kabul, EUPOL has training units in the
main provinces, namely in Kunduz where courses are given in cooperation with dutch and german military forces from NATO.
Crime scene investigation is one of the topics taught. Law students are invited to observe; including female ones specifically interested in working in the field of gender violence.
Farkhunda Karimi
Lawyer and program officer
"When I took the decision that I wanted to become a lawyer, definitely there were a lot of challenges to reach this position. But I decided, because our people, especially our females, that one female needs a female lawer, because they can say their problems more easily to a female lawyer."
The annual EU budget for this mission is around 60 million euros, on top of another 200 million euros on development programs. After 10 years, the EU hopes to leave some sort of legacy.
Hansjörg Haber
EU Civilian Operations Commander
"Sustainablility is important: train the trainer, so that the Afghans can continue the work themselves. Even without us. And concentrate on a few centres outside Kabul for doing the training."
It's welcome news for the Afghan government, but it needs to be ready to stand alone.
Isabel da Silva
euronews:
"The EU civilian operations commander informed the Afghan government that the mission can be extended, but international troops will finish the mission in 2014. The mission will therefore need to be restructured and so he asked the government in Kabul for proposals. The final decision will be taken next summer."
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While Afghanistan has made notable progress, the country continues to face insurgency within its own borders, and the spill over effects of a new wave of violen...
While Afghanistan has made notable progress, the country continues to face insurgency within its own borders, and the spill over effects of a new wave of violence in neighbouring Pakistan. This volatile situation is followed closely on the ground by the EU, which has a significant presence throughout the country, combining social and economic development projects with an overall focus on the long-term aspects of security.
This video was produced by Mostra on behalf of the European Union.
While Afghanistan has made notable progress, the country continues to face insurgency within its own borders, and the spill over effects of a new wave of violence in neighbouring Pakistan. This volatile situation is followed closely on the ground by the EU, which has a significant presence throughout the country, combining social and economic development projects with an overall focus on the long-term aspects of security.
This video was produced by Mostra on behalf of the European Union.
http://www.euronews.com/ The police look for explosives, guns and drugs around Kabul's "Ring of Steel". This is a line of 25 checkpoints encircling the capital ...
http://www.euronews.com/ The police look for explosives, guns and drugs around Kabul's "Ring of Steel". This is a line of 25 checkpoints encircling the capital of Afghanistan, set up as part of the European Union police training mission EUPOL in 2007. It is part of the effort in the transition from a para-military force to a civilian one aimed at serving the rule of law. It means changing mentalities in a country tormented by conflict for the last four decades.
Kabul policeman Amir Shah, an example of the new generation, said: "I want to serve my country to my last drop of blood. My family is happy with this."
Police officers are main targets for insurgents here - the Taliban. Many ordinary Afghans fear the departure of NATO troops in 2014 will unleash a full-blown civil war. The cost of the police transition mission is around 60 million euros per year - ultimately provided by European taxpayers. At this Police Staff College in the last five years, 4,500 higher-ranking officers have received training including criminal investigation, fighting corruption and drug trafficking, community policing and human rights.
Defence Lawyer Edris Arib said: "The most important thing in which they are focusing on and that they would like to learn is about citizens' rights: the rights of people, specifically - as we are teaching today - child rights and women's rights. When we deliver about different types of violent crime, they receive it very well, and their ambition is to implement what they learn here, in Staff College, in their districts."
Over the years, the police earned a reputation for brutality, incompetence, corruption and greed. After a decade of NATO presence, an elected government and billions of euros in international aid, things seem to be changing, but very slowly.
Sar-e Pol Police Head of Human Rights Baz Mohammad said: "The Police force is more respected now because there is increased cooperation with the citizens. People trust the Police. In the few cases where less knowledgeable officers have used violence, we have educated them and increased their awareness through special courses."
Police staff also receive training with the NATO military, such as at this German-Dutch base in Kunduz. The practical exercises include re-enactments of crimes. Community policing and gender-related violence are among the top subjects taught.
Euronews correspondent Isabel Marques da Silva said: "For years, what the Afghan police did, basically, was repress serious violence and try to obtain confessions from criminals. Now they are training to question witnesses, collect evidence, prepare reports and share information with lawyers and prosecutors."
In the 150,000-member Afghan force, there are almost no women. Those we see serve the coffee and do the cleaning.
EUPOL Afghanistan Head of Mission Karl Ake Roghe said: "We are now working together with United Nation Population Fund to recruit more female police officers to the police force. But not only to recruit female police officers: train them properly, equip them properly and also make sure that they are doing real police work when they finish their training."
In a country where 87% of the women suffer some form of violence, according to the UN, a female commander is something out of the ordinary, yet the very popular programme "Commander Amanullah", broadcast since January, has a woman playing the lead role.
Recently, filming was done in the office of the real commander of Kabul Police District 9.
Policewoman and director-star actress Saba Sahar said: "A lot of people do not know how to report their problems and how to solve them with the help of the police. This TV series we are making is to help educate people on how to share their problems with the police."
EU Civilian Operations Commander Hansjorg Haber said: "We, as as mission can not do it. This would have to be a European Commission project or a project by one of our member states. We can tell the Afghans what to want, but we can not provide them with these pieces of equipment ourselves."
Experts say years more training will be needed. But the EUPOL EU police mission in Afghanistan is to end in December 2014, when NATO troops are due to withdraw.
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http://www.euronews.com/ The police look for explosives, guns and drugs around Kabul's "Ring of Steel". This is a line of 25 checkpoints encircling the capital of Afghanistan, set up as part of the European Union police training mission EUPOL in 2007. It is part of the effort in the transition from a para-military force to a civilian one aimed at serving the rule of law. It means changing mentalities in a country tormented by conflict for the last four decades.
Kabul policeman Amir Shah, an example of the new generation, said: "I want to serve my country to my last drop of blood. My family is happy with this."
Police officers are main targets for insurgents here - the Taliban. Many ordinary Afghans fear the departure of NATO troops in 2014 will unleash a full-blown civil war. The cost of the police transition mission is around 60 million euros per year - ultimately provided by European taxpayers. At this Police Staff College in the last five years, 4,500 higher-ranking officers have received training including criminal investigation, fighting corruption and drug trafficking, community policing and human rights.
Defence Lawyer Edris Arib said: "The most important thing in which they are focusing on and that they would like to learn is about citizens' rights: the rights of people, specifically - as we are teaching today - child rights and women's rights. When we deliver about different types of violent crime, they receive it very well, and their ambition is to implement what they learn here, in Staff College, in their districts."
Over the years, the police earned a reputation for brutality, incompetence, corruption and greed. After a decade of NATO presence, an elected government and billions of euros in international aid, things seem to be changing, but very slowly.
Sar-e Pol Police Head of Human Rights Baz Mohammad said: "The Police force is more respected now because there is increased cooperation with the citizens. People trust the Police. In the few cases where less knowledgeable officers have used violence, we have educated them and increased their awareness through special courses."
Police staff also receive training with the NATO military, such as at this German-Dutch base in Kunduz. The practical exercises include re-enactments of crimes. Community policing and gender-related violence are among the top subjects taught.
Euronews correspondent Isabel Marques da Silva said: "For years, what the Afghan police did, basically, was repress serious violence and try to obtain confessions from criminals. Now they are training to question witnesses, collect evidence, prepare reports and share information with lawyers and prosecutors."
In the 150,000-member Afghan force, there are almost no women. Those we see serve the coffee and do the cleaning.
EUPOL Afghanistan Head of Mission Karl Ake Roghe said: "We are now working together with United Nation Population Fund to recruit more female police officers to the police force. But not only to recruit female police officers: train them properly, equip them properly and also make sure that they are doing real police work when they finish their training."
In a country where 87% of the women suffer some form of violence, according to the UN, a female commander is something out of the ordinary, yet the very popular programme "Commander Amanullah", broadcast since January, has a woman playing the lead role.
Recently, filming was done in the office of the real commander of Kabul Police District 9.
Policewoman and director-star actress Saba Sahar said: "A lot of people do not know how to report their problems and how to solve them with the help of the police. This TV series we are making is to help educate people on how to share their problems with the police."
EU Civilian Operations Commander Hansjorg Haber said: "We, as as mission can not do it. This would have to be a European Commission project or a project by one of our member states. We can tell the Afghans what to want, but we can not provide them with these pieces of equipment ourselves."
Experts say years more training will be needed. But the EUPOL EU police mission in Afghanistan is to end in December 2014, when NATO troops are due to withdraw.
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(5 Jan 2015) A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul on Monday, killing one Afghan civilian and wound...
(5 Jan 2015) A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul on Monday, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others nearby.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the first against a foreign target in the Afghan capital in 2015.
According to a statement from the EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) the driver of the car packed with explosives apparently targeted a convoy of mission vehicles near its headquarters on the eastern outskirts of Kabul in the early afternoon on Monday.
"The vehicle's occupants were uninjured," EUPOL said on its Facebook page.
The mission funds and trains Afghanistan's 157,000-strong police force.
The spokesman for the Kabul police chief, Hashmat Stanekzai confirmed the casualties.
A separate explosion struck near Kabul's international airport earlier on Monday, leaving no casualties.
Kabul was hit by a high number of attacks in the last weeks of 2014, as the Taliban targeted government, military and foreign installations.
A total of six foreigners were killed in a flurry of attacks in the capital in late 2014.
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(5 Jan 2015) A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul on Monday, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others nearby.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the first against a foreign target in the Afghan capital in 2015.
According to a statement from the EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) the driver of the car packed with explosives apparently targeted a convoy of mission vehicles near its headquarters on the eastern outskirts of Kabul in the early afternoon on Monday.
"The vehicle's occupants were uninjured," EUPOL said on its Facebook page.
The mission funds and trains Afghanistan's 157,000-strong police force.
The spokesman for the Kabul police chief, Hashmat Stanekzai confirmed the casualties.
A separate explosion struck near Kabul's international airport earlier on Monday, leaving no casualties.
Kabul was hit by a high number of attacks in the last weeks of 2014, as the Taliban targeted government, military and foreign installations.
A total of six foreigners were killed in a flurry of attacks in the capital in late 2014.
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The latest in a wave of attacks in Afghanistan has targeted the European Union.
Extremist group the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb a...
The latest in a wave of attacks in Afghanistan has targeted the European Union.
Extremist group the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on a "European Union Police Mission":http://www.eupol-afg.eu/ (EUPOL) vehicle in the capital Kabul.
At least three people have died, officials say.
A EUPOL spokeswoman said all personnel were safe, but confirmed another person travelling in the vehicle had been killed.
Two Afghan civilian bystanders are also thought to have di…
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The latest in a wave of attacks in Afghanistan has targeted the European Union.
Extremist group the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on a "European Union Police Mission":http://www.eupol-afg.eu/ (EUPOL) vehicle in the capital Kabul.
At least three people have died, officials say.
A EUPOL spokeswoman said all personnel were safe, but confirmed another person travelling in the vehicle had been killed.
Two Afghan civilian bystanders are also thought to have di…
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(17 Jun 2007)
++SOUND QUALITY AS INCOMING++
1. Wide of opening ceremony of EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) in Kabul
2. Mid of EU's envoy to Afghanista...
(17 Jun 2007)
++SOUND QUALITY AS INCOMING++
1. Wide of opening ceremony of EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) in Kabul
2. Mid of EU's envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell (left) and Afghan Interior Minister Zara Ahmad Moqbil
3. Various of ceremony
4. Attendees clapping
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francesc Vendrell, EU's envoy to Afghanistan:
"Today, we have witnessed another cowardly attack against the police forces of this country. And I think the fact that the police forces are the target and - not only today but in the past - attests to the importance of the police to their key role in ensuring the security of this country.
6. Close-up of arm badge reading EUPOL Afghanistan
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francesc Vendrell, EU's envoy to Afghanistan:
"And it makes it all the more relevant that the European Union should be here today to launch their police project because this project is needed today more than ever. "
8. Wide of press conference
9. Journalist asking question
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Zara Ahmad Moqbil, Afghan Interior minister:
"The suicide attacker attacked the bus transporting our officers when they were getting on the bus, but the investigation is still ongoing to know how it happened. And the foreigners who got wounded in this incident, their vehicle was close to the bus when the incident took place, but they were slightly wounded."
9. Mid of EUPOL instructors
10. Close of EUPOL instructors saluting
STORYLINE:
The EUPOL (EU Police Mission) took over police training in Kabul on Sunday, hours after a bomb ripped through police bus in Afghan capital, killing 35 people.
EU envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell and the Afghan interior minister Zara Ahmad Moqbil took part in the opening ceremony and condemned the deadly attack.
"Today, we have witnessed another cowardly attack against the police forces of this country. And I think the fact that the police forces are the target and - not only today but in the past - attests to the importance of the police to their key role in ensuring the security of this country," said Vendrell.
The EUPOL project was even more relevant following the bombing, he added.
Around 195 policemen from EU member countries, Canada and Norway are taking over the training of Afghan police.
The EUPOL Mission starts under German command, which is the biggest contingent as Germany is sending 60 policemen.
The head of Kabul's military hospital said at least 35 people, including 22 policemen, were killed in Sunday's bus bombing.
At least 35 others were wounded, hospital officials said.
Moqbil said an investigation into the attack was ongoing.
Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said a suicide bomber named Mullah Asim Abdul Rahman caused the blast. His claim could not be verified.
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(17 Jun 2007)
++SOUND QUALITY AS INCOMING++
1. Wide of opening ceremony of EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) in Kabul
2. Mid of EU's envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell (left) and Afghan Interior Minister Zara Ahmad Moqbil
3. Various of ceremony
4. Attendees clapping
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francesc Vendrell, EU's envoy to Afghanistan:
"Today, we have witnessed another cowardly attack against the police forces of this country. And I think the fact that the police forces are the target and - not only today but in the past - attests to the importance of the police to their key role in ensuring the security of this country.
6. Close-up of arm badge reading EUPOL Afghanistan
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francesc Vendrell, EU's envoy to Afghanistan:
"And it makes it all the more relevant that the European Union should be here today to launch their police project because this project is needed today more than ever. "
8. Wide of press conference
9. Journalist asking question
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Zara Ahmad Moqbil, Afghan Interior minister:
"The suicide attacker attacked the bus transporting our officers when they were getting on the bus, but the investigation is still ongoing to know how it happened. And the foreigners who got wounded in this incident, their vehicle was close to the bus when the incident took place, but they were slightly wounded."
9. Mid of EUPOL instructors
10. Close of EUPOL instructors saluting
STORYLINE:
The EUPOL (EU Police Mission) took over police training in Kabul on Sunday, hours after a bomb ripped through police bus in Afghan capital, killing 35 people.
EU envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell and the Afghan interior minister Zara Ahmad Moqbil took part in the opening ceremony and condemned the deadly attack.
"Today, we have witnessed another cowardly attack against the police forces of this country. And I think the fact that the police forces are the target and - not only today but in the past - attests to the importance of the police to their key role in ensuring the security of this country," said Vendrell.
The EUPOL project was even more relevant following the bombing, he added.
Around 195 policemen from EU member countries, Canada and Norway are taking over the training of Afghan police.
The EUPOL Mission starts under German command, which is the biggest contingent as Germany is sending 60 policemen.
The head of Kabul's military hospital said at least 35 people, including 22 policemen, were killed in Sunday's bus bombing.
At least 35 others were wounded, hospital officials said.
Moqbil said an investigation into the attack was ongoing.
Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said a suicide bomber named Mullah Asim Abdul Rahman caused the blast. His claim could not be verified.
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Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique.
The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so.
The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value of education.
The European Union started its police training mission in Afghanistan in June 2007. Canada, Croatia, New Zealand and Norway also take part in the EUPOL training mission.
After more than three years, EUPOL Afghanistan is still not able to train the numbers of Afghan police officers that it had envisaged. This because not enough police training officers are seconded by the EU member states.
So, instead of directly training officers, the EUPOL mission focuses on 'training the trainers' and expects the Afghan trainers to take home the lessons learned at EUPOL.
The European mission has trained several hundred trainers. It has a budget of about 55 million euro per year.
The United States since 2001 has made available a budget of some 6 billion dollars for their attempt to train more than 13.000 police officers
This video material was filmed in July 2009, when in Kabul on assignment for the European Council. The footage of the water bomb class was never used in any of the official video reports on the EUPOL mission.
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Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique.
The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so.
The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value of education.
The European Union started its police training mission in Afghanistan in June 2007. Canada, Croatia, New Zealand and Norway also take part in the EUPOL training mission.
After more than three years, EUPOL Afghanistan is still not able to train the numbers of Afghan police officers that it had envisaged. This because not enough police training officers are seconded by the EU member states.
So, instead of directly training officers, the EUPOL mission focuses on 'training the trainers' and expects the Afghan trainers to take home the lessons learned at EUPOL.
The European mission has trained several hundred trainers. It has a budget of about 55 million euro per year.
The United States since 2001 has made available a budget of some 6 billion dollars for their attempt to train more than 13.000 police officers
This video material was filmed in July 2009, when in Kabul on assignment for the European Council. The footage of the water bomb class was never used in any of the official video reports on the EUPOL mission.
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http://www.euronews.com/ The Afghan National Police - the ANP - can count on EU training until coalition troops withdraw in December 2014 - an extension of 18 months.
Civilian Operations Commander, Hansjörg Haber visited Afghanistan to plan for the extension of the current EU Police Mission mandate - or EUPOL, with an original end date of 31st May 2013.
A key issue is the infiltration of police units by taliban insurgents, who then target their western trainers.
Lt General Mohammed Ayoub Salangi
Kabul Police Chief:
"The enemy knows that the ANP is developing day by day and they are very concerned; that's why they continue to focus their attacks on the ANP."
Besides Kabul, EUPOL has training units in the
main provinces, namely in Kunduz where courses are given in cooperation with dutch and german military forces from NATO.
Crime scene investigation is one of the topics taught. Law students are invited to observe; including female ones specifically interested in working in the field of gender violence.
Farkhunda Karimi
Lawyer and program officer
"When I took the decision that I wanted to become a lawyer, definitely there were a lot of challenges to reach this position. But I decided, because our people, especially our females, that one female needs a female lawer, because they can say their problems more easily to a female lawyer."
The annual EU budget for this mission is around 60 million euros, on top of another 200 million euros on development programs. After 10 years, the EU hopes to leave some sort of legacy.
Hansjörg Haber
EU Civilian Operations Commander
"Sustainablility is important: train the trainer, so that the Afghans can continue the work themselves. Even without us. And concentrate on a few centres outside Kabul for doing the training."
It's welcome news for the Afghan government, but it needs to be ready to stand alone.
Isabel da Silva
euronews:
"The EU civilian operations commander informed the Afghan government that the mission can be extended, but international troops will finish the mission in 2014. The mission will therefore need to be restructured and so he asked the government in Kabul for proposals. The final decision will be taken next summer."
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While Afghanistan has made notable progress, the country continues to face insurgency within its own borders, and the spill over effects of a new wave of violence in neighbouring Pakistan. This volatile situation is followed closely on the ground by the EU, which has a significant presence throughout the country, combining social and economic development projects with an overall focus on the long-term aspects of security.
This video was produced by Mostra on behalf of the European Union.
http://www.euronews.com/ The police look for explosives, guns and drugs around Kabul's "Ring of Steel". This is a line of 25 checkpoints encircling the capital of Afghanistan, set up as part of the European Union police training mission EUPOL in 2007. It is part of the effort in the transition from a para-military force to a civilian one aimed at serving the rule of law. It means changing mentalities in a country tormented by conflict for the last four decades.
Kabul policeman Amir Shah, an example of the new generation, said: "I want to serve my country to my last drop of blood. My family is happy with this."
Police officers are main targets for insurgents here - the Taliban. Many ordinary Afghans fear the departure of NATO troops in 2014 will unleash a full-blown civil war. The cost of the police transition mission is around 60 million euros per year - ultimately provided by European taxpayers. At this Police Staff College in the last five years, 4,500 higher-ranking officers have received training including criminal investigation, fighting corruption and drug trafficking, community policing and human rights.
Defence Lawyer Edris Arib said: "The most important thing in which they are focusing on and that they would like to learn is about citizens' rights: the rights of people, specifically - as we are teaching today - child rights and women's rights. When we deliver about different types of violent crime, they receive it very well, and their ambition is to implement what they learn here, in Staff College, in their districts."
Over the years, the police earned a reputation for brutality, incompetence, corruption and greed. After a decade of NATO presence, an elected government and billions of euros in international aid, things seem to be changing, but very slowly.
Sar-e Pol Police Head of Human Rights Baz Mohammad said: "The Police force is more respected now because there is increased cooperation with the citizens. People trust the Police. In the few cases where less knowledgeable officers have used violence, we have educated them and increased their awareness through special courses."
Police staff also receive training with the NATO military, such as at this German-Dutch base in Kunduz. The practical exercises include re-enactments of crimes. Community policing and gender-related violence are among the top subjects taught.
Euronews correspondent Isabel Marques da Silva said: "For years, what the Afghan police did, basically, was repress serious violence and try to obtain confessions from criminals. Now they are training to question witnesses, collect evidence, prepare reports and share information with lawyers and prosecutors."
In the 150,000-member Afghan force, there are almost no women. Those we see serve the coffee and do the cleaning.
EUPOL Afghanistan Head of Mission Karl Ake Roghe said: "We are now working together with United Nation Population Fund to recruit more female police officers to the police force. But not only to recruit female police officers: train them properly, equip them properly and also make sure that they are doing real police work when they finish their training."
In a country where 87% of the women suffer some form of violence, according to the UN, a female commander is something out of the ordinary, yet the very popular programme "Commander Amanullah", broadcast since January, has a woman playing the lead role.
Recently, filming was done in the office of the real commander of Kabul Police District 9.
Policewoman and director-star actress Saba Sahar said: "A lot of people do not know how to report their problems and how to solve them with the help of the police. This TV series we are making is to help educate people on how to share their problems with the police."
EU Civilian Operations Commander Hansjorg Haber said: "We, as as mission can not do it. This would have to be a European Commission project or a project by one of our member states. We can tell the Afghans what to want, but we can not provide them with these pieces of equipment ourselves."
Experts say years more training will be needed. But the EUPOL EU police mission in Afghanistan is to end in December 2014, when NATO troops are due to withdraw.
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(5 Jan 2015) A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul on Monday, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others nearby.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the first against a foreign target in the Afghan capital in 2015.
According to a statement from the EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) the driver of the car packed with explosives apparently targeted a convoy of mission vehicles near its headquarters on the eastern outskirts of Kabul in the early afternoon on Monday.
"The vehicle's occupants were uninjured," EUPOL said on its Facebook page.
The mission funds and trains Afghanistan's 157,000-strong police force.
The spokesman for the Kabul police chief, Hashmat Stanekzai confirmed the casualties.
A separate explosion struck near Kabul's international airport earlier on Monday, leaving no casualties.
Kabul was hit by a high number of attacks in the last weeks of 2014, as the Taliban targeted government, military and foreign installations.
A total of six foreigners were killed in a flurry of attacks in the capital in late 2014.
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The latest in a wave of attacks in Afghanistan has targeted the European Union.
Extremist group the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on a "European Union Police Mission":http://www.eupol-afg.eu/ (EUPOL) vehicle in the capital Kabul.
At least three people have died, officials say.
A EUPOL spokeswoman said all personnel were safe, but confirmed another person travelling in the vehicle had been killed.
Two Afghan civilian bystanders are also thought to have di…
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(17 Jun 2007)
++SOUND QUALITY AS INCOMING++
1. Wide of opening ceremony of EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) in Kabul
2. Mid of EU's envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell (left) and Afghan Interior Minister Zara Ahmad Moqbil
3. Various of ceremony
4. Attendees clapping
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francesc Vendrell, EU's envoy to Afghanistan:
"Today, we have witnessed another cowardly attack against the police forces of this country. And I think the fact that the police forces are the target and - not only today but in the past - attests to the importance of the police to their key role in ensuring the security of this country.
6. Close-up of arm badge reading EUPOL Afghanistan
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francesc Vendrell, EU's envoy to Afghanistan:
"And it makes it all the more relevant that the European Union should be here today to launch their police project because this project is needed today more than ever. "
8. Wide of press conference
9. Journalist asking question
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Zara Ahmad Moqbil, Afghan Interior minister:
"The suicide attacker attacked the bus transporting our officers when they were getting on the bus, but the investigation is still ongoing to know how it happened. And the foreigners who got wounded in this incident, their vehicle was close to the bus when the incident took place, but they were slightly wounded."
9. Mid of EUPOL instructors
10. Close of EUPOL instructors saluting
STORYLINE:
The EUPOL (EU Police Mission) took over police training in Kabul on Sunday, hours after a bomb ripped through police bus in Afghan capital, killing 35 people.
EU envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell and the Afghan interior minister Zara Ahmad Moqbil took part in the opening ceremony and condemned the deadly attack.
"Today, we have witnessed another cowardly attack against the police forces of this country. And I think the fact that the police forces are the target and - not only today but in the past - attests to the importance of the police to their key role in ensuring the security of this country," said Vendrell.
The EUPOL project was even more relevant following the bombing, he added.
Around 195 policemen from EU member countries, Canada and Norway are taking over the training of Afghan police.
The EUPOL Mission starts under German command, which is the biggest contingent as Germany is sending 60 policemen.
The head of Kabul's military hospital said at least 35 people, including 22 policemen, were killed in Sunday's bus bombing.
At least 35 others were wounded, hospital officials said.
Moqbil said an investigation into the attack was ongoing.
Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said a suicide bomber named Mullah Asim Abdul Rahman caused the blast. His claim could not be verified.
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European Union Police Mission can refer to various European Union police support operations:
Missions
Completed missions
European Union Police Mission in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (EUPOL Proxima)
European Union Police Mission in Kinshasa (DRC) (EUPOL Kinshasa)
EUPOL RD Congo, the successor to EUPOL Kinshasa
European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM), the European Union's mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina that aided the local police organizations, and was one of a number of European Union Police Missions worldwide
European Union Police Mission in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (EUPOL Proxima)
European Union Police Mission in Kinshasa (DRC) (EUPOL Kinshasa)
EUPOL RD Congo, the successor to EUPOL Kinshasa
European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM), the European Union's mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina that aided the local police organizations, and was one of a number of European Union Police Missions worldwide