20140927_NIU_CJ7_TREX_SFA guide 3.1

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5.22 District Chief of Police. The DCoP is the senior law enforcement officer in the
district. The DCoP is the face of GIRoA for a substantial portion of the population
and is sometimes the only GIRoA official in a district. He manages all of the AUP
within district boundaries and interacts with the PCoP for issues affecting his district.
The DCoP is also a key intermediary with the village elders who work to nominate
individuals to serve as part of the ALP (see par 5.29 for ALP). Once the ALP
are vetted, they are trained at AUP training centers and assigned security duties in
their respective villages. Village and checkpoint-level ALP commanders coordinate
their activities with the DCoP. The DCoP attempts to utilize the ALP along with his
assigned AUP as part of an integrated plan to increase the security bubble across the
district. The DCoP is where responsibilities for the ALP and policing the community
intersect. For this reason, the DCoP is the critical node in the AUP and arguably for
the entire MoI.
5.23 Afghan Border Police (ABP). The ABP are organized into six zones and have
primary responsibility for the security zone that stretches 50km inland from Afghanistan’s
international boundaries (Annex A, pg A-26). It also operates at Border
Crossing Points (BXPs) and airports. The ABP guard against illegal entry of persons,
weapons, narcotics, and other goods. In some areas, they also perform paramilitary
functions to suppress insurgent activity. In coordination with customs authorities,
the ABP provides immigration/visa services, establishes and maintains BXP’s, and
provides perimeter, building, aircraft, and passenger security at airports. They also
have augmented judicial sector security in some districts.
5.24 Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP). The ANCOP are modeled after
the European gendarmeries and were developed specifically to deal with civil unrest
and to react to insurgent activities in remote and high-threat areas. ANCOP provide
civil order presence patrols and a crisis or counter-terror response capability in urban
and metropolitan areas and also prevent or respond to violent public incidents.
ANCOP are organized into brigades and kandaks that are deployable throughout
Afghanistan (Annex A, pg A-28). ANCOP are often deployed in support of ANA-led
counterinsurgency operations, and in some areas they man checkpoints like their
ANSF counterparts. 1
5.25 Counter-Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA). The CNPA is the lead agency
for the counter-narcotics
mission in Afghanistan.
It is part of MoI and
operates under the Deputy
Minister for Counter-Narcotics.
It consists of a regular
narcotics police force,
located throughout the
34 provinces, and several
Coalition-mentored specialized
units. The specialized
units (the Sensitive
Investigation Unit (SIU),
National Interdiction Unit
(NIU), and Intelligence
and Investigation Unit
Photo: Tech. Sgt. Laura Smith
1 The ANCOP 3 rd BDE in Balkh Province recently reassigned 3 kandaks to provide enough kandaks to
form a new 4 th ANCOP Brigade in Kunduz.
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