Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in - United States ...

With a commander and high level staff now in place, the focus of ANPTGC has shifted from
generating forces to creating a permanent, capable training organization to support development
of a quality force. The ANP Professional Development Board (PDB), chaired by the ANPTGC
Commander, supports partnership in course instruction development and standardization across
the major stakeholders including ANPTGC, NTM-A, the German Police Project Team, and the
European Union Police Mission (EUPOL). The key to the ANP’s professional sustainability
following the 2014 transition is an enduring and effective training management capability.
Future training objectives for the ANP include: 1) training NCOs and untrained patrolmen; 2)
enabling balanced growth in the size and quality of the force; and, 3) shifting the focus of the
ANP from COIN missions to a rule of law-based police force. Part of this effort includes
planning for a class of 400-500 training instructors who will augment the decentralized
Permanent Training Teams, Zone Training Teams, and Provincial Training Companies. These
training units will provide the quality training needed to transform the ANP from a COINfocused
security force to one capable of investigating and deterring crimes. ANP’s goal is to
have an additional 861 instructors trained and certified by the end of 2012.
WOMEN IN THE ANP
Women currently account for less than 0.9 percent of the total ANP force. As of March 2012,
there were 1,340 female members of the ANP: 558 patrolwomen, 576 NCOs, and 206 officers.
Women are likely to remain underrepresented in the ANP for the foreseeable future; the ANP
failed to meet its recruiting goal in 2010 and 2011, and only 54 women have been recruited in
2012.
The effort to promote gender equality in the ANP faces significant challenges. Many Provincial
Headquarters Commanders do not accept policewomen, as they prefer male candidates and lack
adequate facilities to support females. Further, similar to the MoD, the MoI faces significant
challenges in fully integrating and protecting women in the ANP workforce, especially among
operational units at the provincial and district levels. While women are greatly needed to support
police operations, a combination of cultural impediments, weak recruitment, and uneven
application of policies hinder significant progress. Although stronger documentation,
implementation, and enforcement of policies, procedures, and guidance to better integrate
women will help, time will be needed to change the cultural mores that form the basis of many of
the current impediments. Without significant adjustments, the ANP will not achieve the goal of
5,000 women by the year 2014, as set forth in MoI Decree 55. 18
EQUIPPING
Building a capable and sustainable ANP depends on acquiring the equipment necessary to
support the three basic police functions: shoot, move, and communicate. Accordingly,
significant ANP equipment fielding efforts took place during the reporting period. This is
expected to increase the ANP’s on-hand equipment to approximately 95 percent of tashkil by the
summer of 2012.
18 MoI Decree 55, signed in September 2010, aimed to increase the number of women serving in the ANP to 5,000 over the next five years,
establishing an annual goal of 1,000 additional women per year until 2014.
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