The Search for Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan by Cyrus Hodes & Mark Sedra

Author:Cyrus Hodes & Mark Sedra [Hodes, Cyrus & Sedra, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, General, Strategy, Political Science, Political Freedom
ISBN: 9781134975174
Google: yivl-gHh3hsC
Goodreads: 17988820
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

Reform of the Interior Ministry

Reform of the Interior Ministry was perceived as secondary to overhauling the police. This was exemplified by the fact that the GPPO embedded only one senior adviser in the ministry, with a mandate to advance administrative and personnel reforms by late 2003.144 In the aftermath of the Bonn Conference, the Panjshiri faction of the Northern Alliance entrenched its control over large parts of the Interior Ministry. While Jalali succeeded in weakening the factional hold over the ministry during his tenure in 2003-2005, he could not remove it.

The apparent reluctance to advance reform in the Interior Ministry began to change, albeit slowly, with the entrance of the US into the police-reform process in 2003. Although the US has continued to focus primarily on police training, resources earmarked for the Interior Ministry have steadily increased. In recognition of DynCorp's failure to make adequate headway in advancing reform, the CSTC-A contracted MPRI, which took responsibility for the reform process in 2006. MPRI's involvement is intended to be temporary, until such time as DynCorp is able to recruit the necessary expertise to reassume its role. In 2006, MPRI placed 15 mentors in the Interior Ministry, with the purpose of replicating many of the systems established in the Defence Ministry, covering areas such as personnel and logistics management and legal affairs.145 Most MPRI mentors have a dual role advising in the development of systems and mentoring senior ministry staff.

A number of measures were taken in 2006 to expand the Interior Ministry's command and control capacity. The first of five Regional Command Centers (RCCs), intended to rationalise and formalise the chain of command, was established in Kandahar, on the same site as the RTC. With the exception of the Kabul RCC, all will initially be co-located with RTCs to enable dual use of infrastructure, equipment and resources. The five regional command areas mirror those of the ANA, a deliberate step intended to ensure greater cooperation between the security forces.146 Meanwhile, a National Police Command Center opened in Kabul on 16 December 2006. The product of a $3.4m US-funded project, the facility 'enables a direct link and command and control with the five Afghan National Police Regional Command Centers, as well as coordination with other agencies, such as the Ministry of Defence'.147

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