1. Former General Commander Special Police Units GCPSU:
Maj Gen Sayed Mohammad Roshandil (20180513)

Background Special Police Units:
Three main duties: fighting terrorism, fighting criminals, and fighting narcotics and drug traffickers. Respond in situations that other security forces are not able to handle.
First priority is to provide security for Kabul province
second priority is to provide security for highways,
third priority is to provide security in Herat, Jalalabad, and Balkh Provinces.

In addition, the special unit forces will react to all serious and important security threats in the country and they are able to conduct operations in any condition. For the most part the focus is inside cites, the ANA special forces conduct operations in the out skirts of the cities. The special police forces address those security threats which are inside the cities. Special Police Unitis mostly do the law enforcement jobs. They also fight the criminality and drug-trafficking.

The special police units receive very hard and good training. They have a training center in Kabul that provides 6-month basic training and there is a training center in Balkh province that provides more advanced and technical training. In addition, there is a Special Police Training Center in Logar province that provides special training. The units have the best equipment, the same as NATO soldiers have.

Special police units are busy in providing security for the election 2018/2019 and for the people in 34 provinces. They have units in the provinces and also units that operate at the national level, such as the 222, 333 and 444 units.

The units are expanding according to the order of the president and the MOI four years plan. We plan three more units. They are under training, and about 25% of their training, equipping and recruitment is completed. The 555 unit for Herat province, 999 unit for Nangarhar province, and 888 unit for Balkh province are among these units.

2017 the special units, including national and provincial units, conducted about 2326 operations in all over Afghanistan. 2,010 operations were conducted by national units and provincial units conducted 769 operations all over the country, killing 1733 enemies of the country and wounding 1200 enemies. In addition, 546 different types of rifles were seized and 90 vehicles of the enemy were destroyed.

One of the tasks of special units is to provide security for Kabul City. The special unit has neutralized 11 suicide attacks in Kabul, Balkh, Paktya, and Paktika provinces. A total of 45 suicide attackers have been killed during these operations.(20180513)