Afghan Local Police

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The Afghan Local Police (German: Local Afghan Police ) or ALP for short is a paramilitary auxiliary police force from Afghanistan presented in August 2010 . The ALP should be formed by village communities in order to be able to defend themselves against insurgents.

Responsibilities and composition

The ALP is officially subordinate to the Afghan Interior Ministry. She is trained by United States Special Forces, who are not allowed to supply her with weapons, and by Afghan intelligence. The interior ministry supplies the militia with vehicles, radios and light weapons. The area of ​​application is exclusively the specific village.

According to ISAF commander David Petraeus , former Taliban can also join the ALP . According to the Afghan government, however, this should not be possible.

criticism

Some of the different groups are supposed to collect taxes on their own initiative. Several ALP units defected to the Taliban. There should also be several groups that call themselves ALP, but are not.

history

In August 2010, a local group of Baghlan insurgents joined the ALP. In the ensuing fighting with the Taliban in Baghlan, one German soldier was killed and 14 others were injured.

In the fall of 2011, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the ALP of murder, mistreatment and collecting protection money. According to ISAF, the selection process was improved as a result.

In January 2012 the ALP had around 10,000 men under arms. By 2014 the number should increase to 30,000.

At the end of May 2012, the Afghan Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) criticized the structure of the ALP in a report. Recruiting standards are said to have not been observed. The ALP had been infiltrated "on a large scale" by local leaders. According to the report, 80 percent of all ALP members in the province of Herat belonged to former “illegal armed groups”.

At the beginning of September 2012, the ALP comprised around 16,000 men. On September 2, 2012, the ISAF announced that the ALP's training had been temporarily suspended. Various violent incidents were cited as the reason for this. In August, 15 ISAF soldiers were killed by allied Afghan soldiers or police officers, and on the night of September 2, an ALP commander shot and killed nine civilians in Kunduz province .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Joseph R. Holstead: "Afghan Local Police" Approved For Village Protection. In: Nato Training Mission Afghanistan. August 18, 2010, archived from the original on April 8, 2014 ; accessed on April 7, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Ruttig: Ex-Taliban become auxiliary police. In: the daily newspaper . January 10, 2011, accessed January 11, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b Jochen Stahnke: Before the big redistribution. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved February 2, 2012 .
  4. ↑ T. Ruttig & F. Foschini: Afghan local police infiltrated. In: the daily newspaper . May 23, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b NATO suspends police training in Afghanistan