[Omah]

The lack of professionalism and accountability of the nation’s police and Army has raised serious concerns. The forces have been involved with abuses of civilians such as torture, killings and sexual abuse of children. At least 10% of the 2,777 Afghan civilians who died as a result of the conflict in 2010 were killed by their own security forces.

There are 40,000 police in the country who have had no training at all - Nato has prioritised “quantity over quality”. The training of new police officers has shrunk from eight to six weeks, and is focused on firearms training, rather than civilian policing and law.

Members of the Afghan Local Police, the scheme set up to support local militia groups to fight insurgency, have been involved in kidnapping, beatings and other criminal acts.

Coalition forces are not doing enough to prevent the abuses and they have been too slow to address the issues.

Afghanistan will continue to be run by gangsters and thugs.