Rebuilding police forces

Ein deutscher Polizeibeamter verfolgt den Unterricht afghanischer Grenzpolizisten in Masar-i-Scharif. Enlarge image (© picture-alliance/dpa) Germany is helping create structures that will enable the Afghan police force to advance its development on its own responsibility. The main focus of German and international assistance in support of these efforts is training, advice and equipment. In all three areas a great deal has been invested and considerable progress made.

For more information on Germany's support for police capacity-building in Afghanistan and its role as key partner nation please visit the websites of Federal Foreign Office and Federal Ministry of the Interior:

Afghanische Bereitschaftspolizisten

Federal Foreign Office - Germany’s support for rebuilding the Afghan police force

Germany is assisting the Afghan Government in building a police force that enjoys public confidence and respects the rule of law. The German Government is helping to ensure that the Afghan police are increasingly able to perform their duties on their own and assume responsibility for internal security.

Germany’s support for rebuilding the Afghan police force

Federal Ministry of the Interior - Assistance for the police in Afghanistan

The Federal Government has stepped up its support for building up, in particular through basic and advanced training, a professional, ethnically balanced Afghan police force committed to democracy and human rights.

Assistance for the police in Afghanistan

Rebuilding police forces

Training of Afghan Civil Order Police

EUPOL Afghanistan

In the framework of its comprehensive approach, the European Union launched their police mission in Afghanistan on 15th of June 2007. EUPOL Afghanistan followed Germany in the lead concerning the police reform and builds on the efforts of the EU Member States and other international actors in the field of police and the rule of law. On 18 May 2010, the Council of the European Union has extended the EUPOL Mission’s mandate for a period of three years, until 31 May 2013.

EUPOL Afghanistan