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“Finally, let me also ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a summary of a ``Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan'' issued by the Department of Defense dated April 2010. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan (Issued by the DOD, Apr. 2010) The ANP consists of four major categories of police; the Afghan Uniformed Police (AUP), the Afghan Border Police (ABP), the Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) and Specialized Police. In January 2010, the JCMB, the international community, and the U.S. Government agreed to the Afghan proposal to grow the ANP to 109,000 by October 2010 and 134,000 by October 2011. March goal: 99261. Actual: 102,138. One of the major past weaknesses of the ANP program is the lack of centralized command and control for recruiting and training. A major concern of the international community is the lack of personnel accountability in the ANP force. There have been accounts of ``over-the-tashkil'' police in various districts doing police work while not being paid through LOTF-A, as well as accounts of ``ghost police'' who are on the payroll but are not actually present for duty. Training is a key challenge to building the capacity of the ANP. In recent years, because of the lack of program resourcing, 60-70% of the force was hired and deployed with no formal training (the ``recruit-assign'' model).…”