On the recordMarch 22, 2010
Six billion dollars later, the Afghan national police cannot begin to do their jobs right, never mind relieve American forces. America has spent more than $6 billion since 2002 in an effort to create an effective Afghan police force--buying weapons, building police academies, and hiring defense contractors to train the recruits--but the program has been a disaster. More than $332 million worth of invoices for police training were approved, even though the funds were poorly accounted for according to a government audit, and fewer than 12 percent of the country's police units are capable of operating on their own.
