Misplaced Pages

#413586

12-804: The ANCOP was developed in July 2006 by Colonel Jack Stankiewicz, US Army, Police Reformation Directorate, CSTC-A . It had stations in major cities and towns across Afghanistan. In March 2018, most of the ANCOP personnel of the Afghan National Police were transferred to the Afghan National Army to form the ANCOF with their role remaining the same. The remaining 2,550 ANCOP personnel in the Afghan National Police formed

24-438: A "surge" force of police wherever necessary within the country. As a result, an average ANCOP officer had been deployed on the front lines for a longer average time than his regular ANP counterpart; which had created an inordinate amount of turnover within the ANCOP force. It had two SWAT teams, several explosive ordnance disposal teams, a heavy weapons company, transportation company and logistics support company. In return for

36-597: A branch of the Afghan National Police (ANP), under the nation's Ministry of Interior Affairs . However, both units, ANCOP and Border Police were transferred to the Defense Ministry. ANCOP's 5,365 authorized strength was commanded by a Major General. ANCOP was divided into five Brigades, each commanded by a Brigadier General. These brigades were stationed in Kabul , Paktia , Kandahar , Herat , and Mazar-i-Sharif . Given they underwent 16 weeks of training and had

48-587: A higher literacy rate than the regular Afghan National Police, ANCOP were generally considered a more elite force than the regular ANP that used to oversee them. They were one of the most deployable force of the ANP. Since December 2009, French gendarmes (43 in March 2011) and Spanish officers, Dutch and Polish, under the mandate of the European Gendarmerie Force , operated in the training center of

60-598: The Afghan National Civil Order Police to Mazar-e-Sharif . The training center in Western Afghanistan's Herat Province was staffed with a contingent of Italian Carbinieri augmented by a number of Polish Military Police and United States Marines. The ANCOP were utilized as a replacement force when a local unit of ANP were sent for initial training to a NATO-led basic training facility. As well, ANCOP were also heavily utilized as

72-609: The Public Security Police (PSP). The ANCOF consisted of eight brigades . In June 2020, the ANA began disbanding the ANCOF brigades with personnel to be integrated into ANA Corps. ANCOP's mission was to provide civil order presence patrols, prevent violent public incidents, and provide crisis and anti-terror response in urban and metropolitan environments. Like the Afghan Border Police , ANCOP used to be

84-697: The Train, Advise and Assist (TAA) mission associated with the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Ministry of Interior (MoI), and Non-Security Ministries, the organization was known as the Deputy Commander - Ministerial Advisor Group, or DCOM-MAG. In November 2013, with NTM-A functionally aligned under International Security Assistance Force's Joint Command (IJC), NTM-A and CSTC-A disaggregated, allowing each organization to focus on its unique mission set. Several months later, CSTC-A prepared Camp Eggers for turnover to

96-630: The U.S. Department of State and transferred the unit's personnel and equipment to the Headquarters International Security Assistance Force (HQ ISAF) compound while simultaneously drawing down to Resolute Support mission numbers. With the realignment of advisors toward establishing a Functionally-Based Security Force Assistance set in July 2014, DCOM-MAG/CSTC-A was recast as the Deputy Chief of Staff Security Assistance (DCOS SA)/CSTC-A. Along with

108-500: The higher commitment of training and fighting, ANCOP officers were promoted to sergeant and received approximately $ 265 a month, roughly double the salary of a regular new ANP recruit. The ANCOP personnel have thwarted several insurgent attacks over the last few years in Kabul. Combined Security Transition Command %E2%80%93 Afghanistan The Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan ( CSTC-A , pronounced "see stick-uh")

120-487: The training and development of Afghan Security Forces. Seven months later, on November 21, 2009, NTM-A was formally activated under CSTC-A. With the headquarters at Camp Eggers, Kabul, the Commander of the organization commanded both CSTC-A and NTM-A. At its peak structure, CSTC-A/NTM-A was an 8,000-member advisor/mentor, combat theater forward-deployed strategic command recognized as an Army Corps-level Headquarters. With

132-844: Was a multinational, U.S. led, military organization during the War in Afghanistan . As of 2019, the organization's missions were: In April 2006, the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) was formed from the Office of Security Cooperation-Afghanistan. In partnership with the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), CSTC-A

SECTION 10

#1732773098414

144-668: Was charged with planning, programming, and implementing reform of the Afghan Security Forces consisting of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Afghan National Police (ANP) in order to develop a stable Afghanistan, strengthen the rule of law, and deter and defeat terrorism within its borders. In April 2009, the Strasbourg-Kehl Summit made the decision to establish NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A), an organization responsible for

#413586