EUPOL
EUPOL--Serving Afghanistan
Newsletter of the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan
March 2012
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PORTRAIT:
Major Amanullah Asadyar and
the importance of education
DUTY AND FAMILY:
Four women and their
daily challenges
ANTI-CORRUPTION:
Eye-opening training
in Malaysia
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Database for students
Kabul. During March a significant piece
of work was carried out by the EUPOL Training Component in relation to the Train The
Trainer (TTT) Programme. There was a lack
of coordination by the International Community in relation to training delivery, there was
no single database of students trained, no selection criteria for students participating in
training and no
definitive target
number of ANP to
be trained. The
Head
of
the
EUPOL Training
Component established a Working
Group (chaired by EUPOL) with NATO
Training Mission NTM-A, German Police
Project Team (GPPT) and the Afghan National Police (ANP). The EUPOL Training
Component has now created and populated a
single TTT Database, carried out a gap analysis in relation in relation to the TTT programme. This has clearly identified those
ANP yet to be trained and in what locations,
which has resulted in clearly defined training
responsibilities for EUPOL and GPPT for
2012.
WHAT’S INSIDE
INSIDE THE STAFF COLLEGE:
Educating the leaders of the
Afghan National Police
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“THEIR PASSION IS MY PASSION”:
Brian Johnston and his visions
for the Staff College
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PORTRAIT: Major Amanullah Asadyar
and the importance of education
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CPJP CONFERENCE: EUPOL’s
presence in the field
6
“THE POLICE IS MY LIFE”: Four
policewomen and prosecutors and
their daily challenges of their lives
7
ANTI-CORRUPTION: 14 prosecutors
and judges and their hands-on experience in Malaysia
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BRIEFS
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OVERVIEW:
EUPOL activities in March
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Police Staff College: A participant of the District Commanders Course receives his certificate
Inside the Staff College
T
he floors in the Police Staff College are
echoing with a variety of accents, foreign and Afghan. Everybody seems busy
here rushing to the classrooms, armed not
with guns but with stack of papers or notepads. The atmosphere is both jovial and studious. In these halls, senior leaders of the
Afghan National Police (ANP) are undergoing rigorous training.
One of them is Shah Wali, 32, District
Commander in Bagharan District of Southern
Helmand province. He attends the five-week
District Commander course and has already
acquired new skills: “I now know better what
it takes to lead, and I want to improve my
cooperation with the prosecutors.” Shah Wali
is one of 2,400 students of the ANP who
were trained at the Staff College since its
opening in July 2010. Despite the initial challenges, EUPOL’s flagship project has turned
out to be EUPOLS overwhelming success
story.
Ralph Logan, EUPOL Operations Manager, recalls the more modest first days: “We
started with 30 students, teaching some fundamental principles of command and leadership.” Now, over 30 courses are offered,
ranging from conflict management to media
engagement, and up to 250 students are enrolled at the same time. The number of trainers has increased at the same speed; currently, 41 Afghan Police trainers and 25 national and international trainers from the
European mission EUPOL are preparing the
leadership of the Afghan police force for
their difficult task.
General Sayed Norullah Zal, 63, Commander of the Police Staff College since
2011, is aware of the challenges and drawbacks of the ANP which still suffers from a
public perception of being incompetent and
corrupt. The General only sees one solution:
to develop role models, starting from the top
of the Afghan police command: “If we want
to have a professional and effective police
force in the future, we need to educate police
leaders.
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Continued from page 1
lice leaders are at the heart of reforming the
style and conduct of the ANP.” There are so
“If they improve their performance and
many challenges for those who are detertheir behaviour, their subordinates will folmined to change. Shah Wali, District Comlow them.” This, he adds, requires excellent
mander from Helmand, says his district is
training.
under Taliban’s control at the moment. ReThe Staff College is about delivering high
suming his job there would be life threatenquality training, and not so much about high
ing. “I am returning as soon as the Afghan
numbers of graduates. EUPOL is focusing
security forces have gained back control,” he
more on the development of senior leaders,
says, and hopes this will be sooner rather
ranking from Lieutenant to General. “Our
than later. No one at the colleges ever forgets
approach and contribution is unique,” says
that there is a harsh reality for Afghan law
EUPOL Chief Superintendent Brian Johnsenforcers outside the classrooms.
ton, Director of the EUPOL Training ComFor Shah Wali, the five weeks at the colponent. He is already looking ahead to the
lege were quite a strain. He was not used to
period of 2014 and
sitting in a classbeyond when the
room for entire
college will need to “If the leaders improve
days. “But some of
function as a comthe courses were
their performance and
pletely Afghan-led
also quite enterand
Afghan-run their behaviour, their
taining,” he says.
institution, a naThis is also the job
tional centre of ex- subordinates will follow
of
curriculum
cellence for police them.”
writer Dirk van
leadership developVierssen who is
ment (see also his
- Major General Sayed Norullah Zal adapting European
portrait on page 4).
courses to AfThere, the poghanistan:
“We
lice officers with
always try to avoid
the most challenging posts in the country will
PowerPoint presentations and instead deliver
look for the support and qualification they
the courses in a way where the active particineed. “This includes District, Provincial and
pation of the students is required: group
Zone Commanders,” says Ralph Logan. The
work, case studies and discussions.”
District Commanders course is prioritised at
the moment: “We recognised that these poContinued on page 3
Happy New Year 1391!
Saal-e Naw Mubarak!
Nawai Kaal Mu Mubarak Sha!
Acting Head of Mission Geoffrey Cooper
I take this opportunity to congratulate all our
Afghan friends on the occasion of Nawruz. I hope
that 1391 will bring you peace and prosperity and
will further pave the way towards a stable Afghanistan. EUPOL re-iterates its commitment to further
assist Afghanistan in reaching stability, through
contributing to police and justice reform, in line
with its mandate.
We continuously assess our deliverables, aiming at making use in the best possible way of our
resources to ensure successful implementation of
our mandate. Accordingly, in March EUPOL organised the bi-annual CPJP conference of all heads
of the City Police and Justice Programmes (CPJPs)
in Kabul, to exchange experiences and lessons
learned. HQ and CPJP heads discussed the strategic review and the possible consequences this might
have for the field presence of EUPOL.
Due to a number of security incidents in March
which resulted in tragic loss of life, EUPOL’s activities have been slightly impacted upon. I would
like to express my gratitude to all EUPOL staff for
your professionalism and commitment in continuing
to carry out the mission’s duties despite imposed
movement restrictions.
I realized that the enhanced security measures can
at times prevent normal conduct of operations and
while restrictions will be constantly reviewed, I do
place the welfare and security of both our Afghan
and International personnel as my top priority.
Editorial
Christiane Buck, Aziz Basam,
Andreas Horst, Mariam Asey
EUPOL Press and Public
Information Office
press.office@eupol-afg.eu
www.eupol-afg.eu
Major General Sayed Norullah Zal,
Commander of the Staff College
© 2012
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Participants of the District Commanders course
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This is crucial to tackle important topics
such as the importance of police and prosecutor cooperation, human rights awareness
or the new code of conduct. The essential
“We make sure that the
Rule of Law agenda
plays an important part
in the curriculum.”
- Sara Norrman
link between justice and law programmes
and the police is a key competence of
EUPOL. “We make sure that the Rule of
Law agenda plays an important part in the
curriculum,” says Sara Norrman, Chief Mentor for Rule of Law.
For General Zal, however, five-week
courses are not nearly sufficient to develop
leaders. He thinks bigger: “Why can’t we
have an Master’s programme for our ANP
officers, invite more trainers and teachers
and send the most able students and trainers abroad for training? This would develop
and motivate our police force.”
Being ambitious is not wrong. Other big
projects have become reality, building a
campus for instance. Right now, all courses
are still held in the temporary classrooms at
the Border Faculty. To give the Staff College and its participants a permanent
Model of the new
Staff College
“home”, the construction of an EU funded
Police Staff College building is already under way. The cornerstone has been laid on
26 November 2011, and the building is
scheduled to be completed in 2013 . Then,
300 students can be trained at the Police
Staff College at any given time.
With this project on track, EUPOL is
considering a new idea for the future of Afghanistan’s law enforcement: CSI Kabul.
“We are developing plans for a EUPOL-led
Crime Investigation Department (CID) Faculty which will compliment the Staff College and focus on homicide, crime scene
investigation techniques, forensics and intelligence,” says EUPOL’s Brian Johnston.
EUPOL trainers already delivered courses
for over 200 CID officers, but it is estimated
that the number requiring investigative training is between 10.000 and 20.000. His hope
and wish is that the CID faculty will soon
become reality.
Facts and Figures
Name:
Police Staff College
Start:
Temporary Police Staff
College established July
2010
Commander:
Major General Sayed
Norullah Zal
Personnel:
115 Afghan National Police
(out of which 41 trainers),
EUPOL (24 out of which 12
National Staff )
Goal:
Leadership and
Management training and
development for ANP
Officer Ranks, Higher
Ranks and General Ranks
Number of Students:
Excess of 2400 since 2010
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“Their passion
is my passion”
Kabul. Brian Johnston knows exactly
why he is motivated to work in Afghanistan:
“I really am inspired to do what is right for
the Afghan National Police and ultimately,
the Afghan people.” The 45 year old Detective Chief Superintendent from the United
Kingdom was recently assigned as the Director of EUPOL’s new Training Component. His aim is to establish the Police Staff
College as an Afghan-led centre of excellence for police leadership development.
Brian is extremely passionate about his
work, having arrived in Afghanistan in February 2010 to start as Senior Police Advisor
for Regional Command South. Although
Brian has extensive international working
experience as a police officer in Kosovo and
Darfur, he was excited by the amount of
work ahead of him: “I don’t think anything
can prepare you for the full extent of the
challenges of working here.” After six
months in the South, he was redeployed to
Kabul first as the Project Lead Officer for
the Police Staff College Project and then as
the Head of the EUPOL Training Centre
Development Department (ETCDD).
For Brian, his new job is “challenging
and demanding, however the rewards and
the positive outcomes are now becoming
more evident and make it all worthwhile”.
EUPOL’s Training Component is seeing real
progress. “One of the ironic challenges that I
face and have to manage is that we have
through our endeavours and accomplish-
“I have a profound
respect for the leaders
of the ANP who really
do have a vision.”
- Brian Johnston
ments become victims of our own success”,
from a very humble start with a limited number of students we really are now giving the
Afghan National Police the professional
development it needs and wants. Capacity
has become an issue despite the numbers
who have already been through our various
development programs but we know that our
new purpose built facility will address this”,
says Brian.
One of the successes is the introduction
of a District Commanders’ Course which
quite literally invites District Commanders
from throughout Afghanistan to attend the
Brian Johnston, Director of EUPOL’s Training Component
(above). He briefed
UK’s Parliamentary
Under-Secretary for
South East Asia, Foreign Commonwealth
Officer Alistair Burt
(left) about the activities
at the Staff College.
course at the Staff College in Kabul. “By
European standards, this would be a monumental task of itself. However, given the
complexity of facilitating this in Afghanistan
despite the challenges of having to maintain
the balance between leadership development
and operational resilience – we have succeeded in our objective”, says Brian.
He has developed a very close professional relationship with the Commander of
the Afghan National Police Training General
Command and a number of other senior figures within the Ministry of Interior. “Their
passion is my passion and I am determined
to do everything I possibly can to enable and
empower the ANP to realise that ambition
and become the police service that I know it
can be and that we all want to see”, says
Brian. “I have a profound respect for the
leaders of the ANP who really do have a
vision and want to make a difference by
transforming the organisation.” He is also
convinced that the strategic command of the
ANP wants a police service that is as profes-
sional, effective and responsive as the police
organisations in Europe.
The training being delivered at the Staff
College will help the ANP to achieve this
ambitious goal. In Brian’s view, EUPOL has
to “ensure that it does not only establish the
foundations of the Staff College but look
ahead to 2014 and beyond to make it an enduring national institution.” He is convinced
that it will come to represent more than a
training development facility. “The objective
is to make it a national, if not regional centre
of excellence for police leadership development.”
To make an Afghan-led enduring institution happen, EUPOL is developing the Afghan capacity to develop themselves, says
Brian. “Afghan colleagues are already delivering leadership training and as time progresses EUPOL will expand its involvement
as it develops the capability and capacity of
the Afghans to take the lead. This will necessarily be a continuing focus for the mission in the period post 2014.”
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S
everal students
raise their hands
to ask questions when
Major Amanullah
Asadyar is lecturing
about law at the Staff
College in Kabul. The
Afghan constitution is
on the schedule today,
and usually a rather
dry topic, but the students are interested.
To begin with, it is not
a usual classroom: the
students all wear police uniforms and as
district commanders
they compile together
dozens of years of
experience in the Afghan National Police
(ANP).
Patiently, Asadyar
answers one technical
question, this time
about the rights of
police officers. “It
shows that they are
interested to progress
and it also makes me
optimistic that one day
we will have a strong
and professional police force in Afghanistan,” he says. The
five week course for
the district commanders is one out of more
than 30 courses offered in the temporary
classrooms of the
Major Amanullah Asadyar: Coordinator and Trainer at the Staff College
Staff College inside
the Afghan Border Police.
For Asadyar, since 2011 assigned as Coordinator and Trainer by the Afghan Ministry of Interior to the Staff College, however,
the district commanders’ course is absolutely
vital. “We have to make sure that we educate
“We have to educate the
commanders in the
provinces.”
- Major Amanullah Asadyar
the commanders in the provinces and not
only high ranking experts from Kabul.” He
considers EUPOL’s teaching curriculum for
district commanders as one of the best he has
ever seen. So far, 287 district commanders
have been trained.
“They have to
know the law
by heart.”
The senior police officer knows what it
takes to be a law enforcer in Afghanistan and
overcome the challenges: Having served for
more than 24 years in the police force, he
faced the war and worked under harsh conditions. 15 years ago, he was sent to Russia by
the Afghan government to study for his master’s degree in Political Science.
A learning experience, he will always
remember. Thus, for him, the training of
high-ranking police officers is vital and nec-
essary. “Many of our
students have never
received advanced
trainings in leadership, management
nor do they know the
latest police investigation techniques or
have a good understanding of how to
combat corruption,”
he says. “How can
they be honest and
loyal police officers
who are supposed to
fight corruption when
they don’t even know
the definition of corruption?” For him,
this is just a lack of
knowledge, and this
is why the core
courses also cover a
variety of topics such
as crime scene investigation techniques,
management style,
children and women
rights or the cooperation between police
and prosecutors.
Major Asadyar’s
favourite course in
the curriculum, however, is the basics of
Afghanistan’s constitution and human
rights issues. “I want
them to study and
know the law by
heart. They are out
there to enforce our
law and they have to
respect human rights, in sum, of the Afghan
people.” He is optimistic that his students
will be role models for their colleagues when
they return to their provinces. “They vow
that whatever we teach them, they will share
it with their colleagues and subordinates.
They will be police officers , leaders and
trainers at the same time. This is exactly
what we wish.”
For Major Asadyar, being a trainer and
coordinator, is a challenging but personally
an extremely satisfactory experience because
he can see instant results: “When my students are leaving, I know from their feedback that they go back to the provinces after
having acquired leadership skills. Most of
them are highly motivated.” He wants also
his son to step in his shoes: “I want him to be
a committed police officer in the future and
be at the service of the people. This is what
Afghanistan needs.”
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EUPOL Head and Deputy Heads of CPJPs with EUPOL’s Head of Mission
CPJP
Conference:
EUPOL’s
presence in
the field
Kabul. Lashkar Gah, Mazar-e Sharif or
Meymaneh: around 90 EUPOL police officer and legal experts in the City Police and
Justice Programme (CPJP) are deployed in
12 provinces throughout Afghanistan.
During the bi-annual CPJP conference in
Mid March organised by EUPOL Field Implementation Office (FIO), the heads and
deputy heads gathered to exchange experiences and lessons learned.
The challenges differ from province to
province to deliver trainings and support to
the Afghan National Police and the Afghan
judicial system: In the South of Afghanistan,
movement restrictions due to the insecure
environment remain a major issue. “The
major challenge for us is security in Lashkar
Gah, but we still support the Afghan National Police there by delivering police and
Rule of Law trainings,” says Paul Brooker,
Head of EUPOL CPJP in Helmand.
The security situation looks more positive in the North, in Mazar-e Sharif for instance. There, EUPOL experts are setting up
a rollout of one of EUPOL flagship projects
in Kabul: Police District 3, a role model for
a modern Afghan civilian police. In Mazar-e
Sharif City, in Police District 6, the project
started in June 2011 and is still ongoing.
“We are very lucky that the Chief of Police
EUPOL’s
presence in the
provinces and
Kabul.
“The major challenge
for us in Lashkar Gah
remains security.”
- Paul Brooker
in Police District 6 is very interested to set
up this work. It makes our job easier to implement the project successfully”, says Thomas Dahmann, Deputy Head of CPJP Mazar
-e Sharif.
During the three day conference, EUPOL
Head of Mission, Brigadier General Jukka
Savolainen, thanked the participants for attending and congratulated them on their contribution to the mission’s achievements. He
also updated them on future challenges and
plans and the potential impact of the upcom-
ing strategic review on EUPOL's presence in
the field.
Yet, the main focus of the conference
was to meet, to share knowledge and experience; both between the Field Offices themselves and between HQ and the Field. For
Paul Vorvis, EUPOL Head of FIO, the conference was a success: “It exceeded my expectations. My special thanks goes out to
those from EUPOL HQ who could take the
time to spend a couple of extra hours to get a
better understanding of CPJP operations,
their issues and their achievements.”
During the closing round table and summary, participants thanked FIO for improvements they’ve seen over the last few months
when it comes to communication with
EUPOL Headquarters in Kabul. They also
proposed a new structure for the next conference: more round table discussions and
break-out sessions.
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“The police
is my life”
Herat. Four brave women talk about
their work as prosecutors and police officers
and the challenges they face. They were part
of EUPOL’s Cooperation for Police and
Prosecutor (CoPP) Training from 24 March
to 5 April in Herat City. Among the 20 participants from Herat city and the districts
were one female trainer and three female
participants. EUPOL’s Rohullah Esmati had
a chat with them.
“Please tell us something
about yourselves”
Mrs. Malalai*, Prosecutor, Herat
Prosecutors’ Office: I am from Kabul and
moved after my marriage to Herat. I started
to work as a prosecutor in 1993 and pursued
at the same time my degree in law in evening classes. When the Taliban regime took
Kabul in 1996, I had to wait for some years
until it was possible to finish my degree.
Mrs. Khalida*, Police Officer, Violence against Women Department, Herat
CID: I am 45 years old and for 25 years of
my life I worked with the Afghan Police.
The Police is my life.
Ms. Karima*, Police Officer, Family
Response Unit, Herat Police: I am originally from Balkh province, having moved to
Herat with my family in 1995. I graduated
from Herat University – Faculty of Arts, but
due to my strong passion for justice I joined
the Police.
Mrs. Navida*, Prosecutor, Attorney
General’s Office (AGO) Kabul, CoPP
Trainer: I graduated in 1989 from Kabul
University, Faculty of Law and have worked
ever since as a prosecutor in Kabul.
“Where did you start your careers and how did it evolve?”
Malalai: I worked in various offices and
departments in the Attorney’s General Office in Kabul, then in Herat. Since last year I
am a monitoring prosecutor, overseeing the
activities of governmental and nongovernmental organisations.
Khalida: When I joined the police I
started to work as an administration staff
member, going up the hierarchy along the
years. Since 2003, my job as a policewoman
is to receive and deal with complaints from
women who are victims of violence.
To combine family and duties remains a challenge for women in the Afghan police force and judicial system
Karima: After joining the National Police, I started to work with family related
matters, and I am now the Head of the Family Response section, where I work on problems regarding women and children. Parallel
to my police duties, I am pursuing a Masters’ program at a university in Herat.
Navida: I started to work as a junior
investigative prosecutor, then moved on to
be a public security prosecutor. Now I am a
monitoring prosecutor, overseeing the activities of the Ministry of Agriculture.
“Is there any specific situation
or case that you recall as a
highlight of your career?”
Malalai: Yes, it was an unfortunate and
tragic situation. When I was an investigative
prosecutor I received a complaint regarding
a forced marriage. The father of the bride
was a drug addict who married his nine year
old daughter to a 50 years old man. I managed to nullify the marriage in court, and
also obtained a conviction of the criminal.
Karima: I take pride in serving Afghan
women. Most of the cases that deal with are
related to domestic violence, beatings and
assaults. I deal with each one of them with
the same care as if it would involve somebody I hold dear.
Khalida: Even after a few years already
spent with the police and in my line of duty,
I am still particularly distressed by the high
rate of cases of self-burning of women. The
main reason behind this desperate gesture is
domestic violence. I hope that the day will
come in which these situations will end.
Navida: Starting to work with EUPOL and
GIZ was an extraordinary experience for me.
I also travelled to Finland where we wrote
the Police Prosecutor Cooperation Manual.
While being there I also learned about the
opportunity to become a CoPP Trainer, so I
applied. After completing the five weeks
course, this training is my first opportunity
to act as a CoPP trainer.
“How do you find time for both
your family and your professional duties?”
Malalai: It is not easy. I have five children – the oldest one is also working as a
prosecutor and he has joined us in the CoPP
training here. It makes me proud to have my
son as a colleague.
Karima: I have four children, two
daughters and two sons. My oldest son is
also a police officer here in Herat.
Khalida: I am a single woman and I live
with my family – my parents, my five brothers and three sisters.
Navida: It is not easily acceptable for an
Afghan woman, regardless of her position,
to travel in Afghanistan, and certainly not
when it comes to travel for long periods of
time. As the CoPP training is more than two
weeks long, I was a bit afraid whether I
would be able to join as a trainer. My family
was very supportive of me and my eldest son
has agreed to join me. I really think that
some things are starting to change, I was
really happy to have three active women
participants in the training.
*Names have been changed
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BRIEFS
“Seven steps for investigation”
Gardez. “The seven steps for successful
investigation” was the title of a course delivered from 3 to 7 March for 13 Inspector
General’s police officers from Gardez. The
training was conducted by EUPOL’s anticorruption Rule of Law mentors Darren
Rawlings and Stefan Muresan in cooperation
with JSSP Gardez/Paktia. Another training
held by EUPOL’s mentor Cristian Franculescu and Nicolae Ionescu focused on Forensic Awareness, Interview and Interrogation techniques for a nine judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and police officers.
Printers for Border Police
Kabul. During their daily mentoring at Afghan Border Police Headquarters (ABP HQ)
in Kabul, EUPOL’s mentor detected that
only two printers were functional at the ABP
HQ for 16 different directorates. This lack
was now settled on 14 March with the handover of eight multifunctional printers and 56
cartridges by EUPOL’s mentor Joerg
Dewenter and Alexander Meszlenyl .
See picture below
Mentoring Sessions
Kabul. EUPOL’s anti-corruption unit delivered on 13 March a mentoring and training
Session for eight high ranking Police officers
(6 Team Leaders of the Ministry of Interior
(MoI) Inspector General and the Head and
Deputy Head of the MoI Anti Corruption
Unit). A list of training activities (security,
procurement process, code of conduct) was
presented to the MoI mentees for review and
the results has been compiled for future joint
training activities that will be prepared for
the MoI and AGO Anti Corruption Units.
Anti-corruption training
in Lashkar Gah
Lashkar Gah. 25 police officers in Lashkar
Gah in Helmand province were trained by
EUPOL’s anti-corruption in two trainings –
anti corruption overview and code of conduct from 25. until 28 March by EUPOL’s
anti corruption mentors Michael Holdsworth
and Guy Shimmons.
Participants of the anti-corruption training in Malaysia
“A consistent anti-corruption
policy can decimate corruption”
Kabul. EUPOL organised in February
exercises such as tendering of tape recording
2012 together with the British Embassy an
as and wire-tap transcripts as evidence in
anti-corruption training of a high-ranking
court, role-play in the questioning of witAfghan delegation at the Malaysian Antinesses, cross-examination, excellent practical
Corruption Academy (MACA) in Kula Lumexercises on advocacy.
pur. 14 key personnel from Afghan antiOne of the highlights was the mock trial
corruption agencies, including prosecutors
in an authentic copy of a courtroom, which
from both the civilian and military antiwas headed by a female Malaysian judge.
corruption units and high level judicial repre“In this comprehensive training my prosecusentation, attended the course.
tors gained many new valuable hints and
Malaysia, 30 years ago, had similar probnew concrete techniques in fighting corruplems with corruption that Afghanistan is faction crimes at home” said General Abubakr
ing today. Judge AbRefai, Director of
dul Jalil Farooqi,
the Anti-Corruption
Head of primary trials “My prosecutors gained
Unit in the Attorney
at the anti-corruption
General’s Office.
tribunal, says the many new valuable
Next to the training
training was a valu- hints and new concrete
the delegation had
able
experience
the possibility to
which makes him techniques in fighting
visit the Malaysian
optimistic towards his corruption”
Anti-Corruption
own work: “The exCommission
ample of Malaysia
- General Abubakr Refai (MACC), the censhows us that a contral anti-corruption
sistent anti-corruption
agency in Malaysia,
policy and a tireless fight against corruption
which has both preventive and enforcement
can decimate corruption and create a basis
capacity. There, the delegation gained infor a civil society and a robust economy.”
sight of the Press and Public Relation DeDuring the eight-days-course the delegapartment, the Investigation Department and
tion was trained in the successful investigathe Prison for the Pre-Trial Detention. In
tion and prosecution of corruption offenses
addition, the delegation visited the Federal
such as special investigative techniques, necCourt of Malaysia and the Primary Anti Coressary evidence, prima facie case, building a
ruption Court of Malaysia, attended some
case file with the right written documents
court hearings of the Session Court, the Apand reports, burden of proof in criminal propeal-Court and the Higher Court and could
ceedings, practical and theoretical insights
watch very close the high level practice in
into advocacy skills, in particular the distincthe Malaysian judiciary. Thanks to many
tion between examination in chief, cross
fruitful discussions the delegation intends to
examination and submissions. The training
establish closer ties between MACA and the
was accompanied by numerous practical
enforcement agencies in Afghanistan.
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EUPOL activities in March
Police
 1 March (Kabul): EUPOL delivered one
general Train-the-Trainer (TTT) and one
Border Police TTT course.
 4 March (Chaghcharan): EUPOL started
a five-day Basic IT course for 14 police
officers and one defence lawyer.
 6 March (Feyzabad): EUPOL handed
over equipment for the new Community
Phone Line in Feyzabad. The handover was
covered by local media and the start of the
media campaign to promote the phone line.
 6 March (Feyzabad): EUPOL started a
course on Intelligence-Led Policing for 14
high-ranking officers.
 6 Mar (Bamyan): EUPOL finished a
TTT course for 17 trainees and three regional training centre instructors; the latter
conducted part of the training.
 7 March (Kabul): EUPOL delivered one
-day training for officers at the Criminal
Investigation Department of Police District
Nine.
 7 March (Kabul): EUPOL delivered a
one-day Intelligence Collection Course for
six Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
officers, which marks the end of the first
phase of intelligence collection trainings for
Police District 9 CID officers.
 7-8 March (Kabul): EUPOL delivered a
two-day Intelligence Collection Course for
11 PD9 police officers.
 8 March (Mazar-e Sharif): EUPOL
finalised the fifth Basic Surveillance
Course with 12 students.
 8 March (Kabul): EUPOL finalised a
two-day Intelligence Collection Course for
11 PD9 police officers at the Central Training Centre).
 9 March (Feyzabad): EUPOL finalised a
three-day advanced course on IntelligenceLed Policing (ILP) for 22 participants.
 10 March (Kabul): At the Police Staff
College EUPOL started two District Commanders Courses (34 students), a Senior
Detectives Course (16 students), a Personal
Qualities and Values Course (20 students),
a Future Leaders Course (180 students)
and a Captain to Major Promotion Course
(184 students) for a total of 434 students.
 10 March (Kabul): EUPOL started a
Train-the-Trainers Course for 50 participants in the Central Training Centre.
 12-14 March (Kabul): EUPOL held its
bi-annual CPJP (City Police and Justice
Programme) conference. Heads of 10
EUPOL CPJPs were gathered from the in
Forensic awareness and interrogation training by EUPOL’s anti-corruption mentors in Gardez
order to give updates about the different activities of the mission in the provinces.
 12 March (Kunduz): GIZ, ACFS NLD
PTG and EUPOL conducted a one-day
workshop on community policing for 12
substation and district commanders.
 14 Mar (Kabul): EUPOL held a mentoring and training (Code of Conduct) session
for ten high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Interior, leaders of Mobile AntiCorruption Teams, and Inspector General’s
of Kabul and Shamshad Zone provinces.
 14 Mar (Chaghcharan): EUPOL finalised a two-day Fingerprint Training
Course for eight police officers.
 15 - 21 Mar (Kabul): Five-week leadership courses have been conducted at the
Police Staff College for 434 students and at
the Central Training Centre (CTC) for 30
students.
 15 Mar (Kabul): EUPOL finalised a two
-day Intelligence Collection Course for 9
students and a two-day Source Handling
Course in the CTC for 13 students, each for
police officers in Kabul’s Police District 9.
 15 Mar (Meymaneh): EUPOL finalised
a three-day course on Intelligence-Led Policing for 12 participants.
 17 Mar (Kabul): EUPOL finalised the
first cycle of Command, Control and Communication (PC3) Training Courses. Nine
officers of the PD9 command staff attended
and graduated.
 19 Mar (Kabul): EUPOL finalised a two
-day Intelligence Collection Course in CTC
for PD9 police officers.
 18 Mar (Feyzabad): EUPOL handed
over IT equipment to ANP HQ such as
(notebooks, printer, mobile phones, etc.) as
part of the community policing project.
 18 Mar (Chaghcharan): EUPOL, jointly
with the PRT Medical Unit, the PRT CIMIC
and POMLT, finalised a two-day Crime
Scene Preservation Course for 12 female
police officers.
Rule of Law
 3 March (Mazar-e Sharif): EUPOL
started a two-week Cooperation of Police
and Prosecutors (CoPP) training.
 5 March (Gardez): EUPOL mentors
started a course for 16 judges, prosecutors,
police officers and defence lawyers on investigation and forensic awareness.
 6 March (Kabul): EUPOL and UNODC
delivered “Code of Conduct” training to 30
police officers.
 11 and 13 March (Kabul): EUPOL’s
Anti-corruption experts Fernando Barbarox
and Cristian Franculescu, jointly with
UNODC, delivered a “Code of Conduct”
training for 98 Kabul City Police Officers.
 March (Meymaneh): EUPOL delivered
a Human Rights training as part of an eight
-week basic course for Afghan National Police officers in Meymaneh.
 15 Mar (Mazar-e Sharif): EUPOL finalised a 12-day course on Cooperation of Police and Prosecutors (CoPP) for 22 participants from different provinces (Samangan,
Sar-e-Pul, Jawzjan, Balkh), including from
Police and Prosecution Services.
 19 Mar (Kabul): EUPOL presented the
Cooperation Manual at the meeting of the
Working Committee of the Professional Development Board (PDB). The Manual is a
training resource for police and prosecutors,
was commended by PDB for MoI accreditation.