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Corruption and corruption related issues are widespread in Afghanistan. It undermines
the government of Afghanistan efforts toward efficient and effective state and democracy building. It is rampant, pervasive and entrenched to all areas of public sector in the country. Police agencies in Afghanistan are among the most corrupt state institutions, which generates gap and mistrust among Afghan people and the Afghan Government. This paper intends to respond to the notion corruption; particularly, this paper will focus on police corruption in Afghanistan. It has been defined as the misuse and abuse of police power and authority for personal and or group gain. Police misuse of power can take the form of various police misconducts; such as, corruption of authority, kickbacks, opportunistic thefts, police crimes and et al. that will be discussed in this paper.

What are the contributing factors that accelerate corruption among Afghanistan
National Police (ANP) and how does it impact lives of ordinary Afghans? The Government of Afghanistan deemed corruption as a serious threat to its nation and democracy building efforts; therefore, sizeable efforts had been put in place to combat corruption in the country. These efforts created the establishment of various anti-corruption commissions and combating corruption agencies. However, the Anti-corruption national and international agencies are working to reduce corruption in Afghanistan, but it is emerging with the passing of time. This paper will provide a foundation and will suggest a few recommendations that can effectively combat corruption in the police sector of Afghanistan.

Niamatullah Sharifi is a National Policy Consultant with the Policy Analysis and Legal Advisory Department at the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock in Kabul, Afghanistan.

December 15, 2011

Shafiq Hamdam, AACN, Silver Contributor (69)

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Sharifi Sahib,

I would like to congratulate you on such a great peace of writing, keep it up and I assure you that one day Afghanistan will be in the list of transparent countries.

December 15, 2011

Abdur Rahman

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Great piece of work, keep it up.

December 15, 2011

Amir Hamza Syed

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Good Job Sayera. Awesome. :)

December 15, 2011

Fahim Samadi

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Great job..Sayer Saheb.... You made me proud

December 15, 2011

Arif Hussain

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Its a well-thought, nicely written and well organized thesis. I hope your recommendations are taken seriously by the concerned authorities. Well done!!!

December 17, 2011

Edris Arib

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Very useful writing, I wish you all the best for the future writings dear Sayer! :)
Congratulations!

December 17, 2011

Mansoor Popalzai

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Masha Allah Sayar saib, very nice,

December 18, 2011

Mohammad Fahim Khalid

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Sayer Jana I have gone through your paper...you did a wonderful Job.

December 26, 2011

Patrick Edwin Moran, Wake Forest University, Platinum Contributor (207)

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I have read your study and think it is very well done.

If you stay interested in this topic you may want to see whether you can find materials on how the police department in Hong Kong was organized and maintained during the time HK was a colony of Great Britain. I was once corrected after making some ignorant remark about the force of culture on institutions. My teacher pointed out that when policemen were serving under a properly constituted organizational system in Hong Kong they gave excellent service to the community and corruption was not a problem. According to my teacher, the essential question was how the relationship between individual policemen and the police organization was constructed, how the organization was constituted, and how the individual policemen learned to relate to the ordinary citizens (and everybody else) with whom they had dealings.

In many ways the police are on the first line of defense of personal freedoms for the ordinary people of a country, so they can have an enormous contribution to the well being of that country. They deserve to make a living wage, as I think you have rightly indicated.

Good work!

December 30, 2011

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Great Job Sayer bro! I hope now you will be able to advice the police department in Afghanistan on implementing your recommendations. I believe if implemented, your policy advises in this paper are more than enough to control the corruption in the mentioned sector by 50%. All the very best for future works.

January 17, 2012

Talha Bin Tariq, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan, Gold Contributor (102)

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Awesome Thoughts !!

Well you are right corruption is becoming a bug or virus which is indulging in this world and specifically few countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan etc .. and these countries top the list of most corrupted countries but i am sure if government or the policy makers of these countries specifically Afghanistan they'll soon become the most transparent country.

Regards,
Talha Bin Tariq

April 7, 2012

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Interesting reading. The one area of the ANP which in constant debate is the number of cases actually turned over to the AGO for prosecution by the ANP anti corruption department. Last year there were "only" 26 corruption cases filed by the ACU with the proseccutors office. Of the 26 cases filed only a very small number were actually prosecuted, 2 or 3 as I recall. The remainder were disposed of by the prosecution. Now when you pay prosecutors between $60 to $100 USD per month, its no wonder most of the cases are "disposed" of by means other than prosecution. As a result, the police that want to do the right thing and try to fight corruption, simply lose interest. The other area of the ACU that causes this lack of interest is that investigators are expected to pay for their fuel and lodging during an investigation, the government does NOT pay these expenses. Its up to the individual officer to bear the costs. Last year the ACU was conducting an investigation into corruption involving a high ranking ANP officer outside of Kabul. The officers investigating the case could not afford to pay for a local hotel so they decided to stay with the officer they were in fact conducting the investigation against. Needless to say, after a week at the officers house with his family and eating at his table, the corruption complaint was "unfounded". I wish I would have met you when you were conducting your research into this paper.

April 7, 2012

DJOM

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One more point to consider. There are currently about 170,000 ANP on the payroll. There are 89 Anti-Corruption investigators assigned to the MOI. Now how serious do you think the government really is about corruption?? 89 investigators assigned to a 170,000 man department!! Its insane. Actually is more a feel good measure by the President and the Minister of Interior to show the "western" world they are "serious" about corruption. The worst part is.....we believe them.

May 30, 2012

Danishmand

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Sayer jan, I just had a glance at your paper. I would suggest you to hand it over to someone for a comprehensive editing. It has some major problems in coherence, flow and at times usage of words.

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