page_title: Afghan National Police
section_title: Training facilities and district headquarters
hierarchical_section_title: Afghan National Police / Training facilities and district headquarters
caption_attribution_description: English: Commander of the Afghanistan Engineer District-South, Col. Vincent V. Quarles and several district civilian technical experts toured the construction site of the Afghan National Civil Order Police Patrol Battalion Facility and Provincial Response Company in the Daman District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Special thanks to Tony Carter for providing images.
context_page_description: The Afghan National Police is the national police force of Afghanistan, serving as a single law enforcement agency all across the country. The agency is under the responsibility of Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior Affairs, headed by Wais Barmak. The ANP had 116,000 members in December 2018.
  The Afghan police traces its roots to the early 18th-century when the Hotak dynasty was established in Kandahar followed by Ahmad Shah Durrani's rise to power. The police force gradually became modernized after 1880 when Emir Abdur Rahman Khan established diplomatic relations with British India. In the 1980s it began receiving training and equipment from former Soviet Union. The current ANP was established after the removal of the Taliban government in late 2001.
  Several government agencies from the United States as well as Germany's Bundespolizei and the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence Police provided most of the early training. In 2007, the EU-led mission was heading the civilian policing in the Kabul area but by 2005 the United States established training programs in all the provinces of Afghanistan.
context_section_description: The United States Army Corps of Engineers is building nearly 200 modern police stations for the Afghan National Police. The total cost of the project was reported to be over $600 million US dollars, and each police station is said to cost about $6 million.
  The main ANP training facility in Kabul was established by the German police mission and is now led by the United States.
  Regional ANP training facilities have been established in:
  Wardak (led by ISAF)
  Gardez (led by USA)
  Kandahar (led by USA)
  Herat (led by Italy)
  Mazar-e-Sharif (led by Germany)
  Khost (led by USA)
caption: Inside the Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) garrison in Kandahar Province
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