{"id":95001,"date":"2020-08-26T08:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T08:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/50-of-police-in-kandahar-zabul-helmand-uruzgan-used-drugs\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T08:11:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T08:11:23","slug":"50-of-police-in-kandahar-zabul-helmand-uruzgan-used-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/50-of-police-in-kandahar-zabul-helmand-uruzgan-used-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201850% of police in Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand, Uruzgan used drugs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/Aug\/26\/Afghan-national-police%203.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has said in a report that 50% of police in Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand &amp; Uruzgan provinces used drugs.<\/p>\n<p>In its quarterly report for the first half of 2020, SIGAR said General Directorate for Internal Security, partnering with National Directorate of Security found that some 50% to 70% of police positions were &ldquo;ghost soldiers&rdquo; in these provinces.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, spokesman for the interior ministry Tariq Arian said these specific points are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the SIGAR report has further noted that General Directorate for Internal Security arrested approx. 1,025 police &amp; government officials over the past year as part of its countercorruption, counter-insider threat, and counterespionage efforts.<\/p>\n<p>It added by By March 2020, Ministry of Interior reported it executed 171 warrants and had 84 outstanding. Of 171 executed warrants, Afghan authorities immediately released all but four defendants.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has said in a report that 50% of police in Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand and Uruzgan provinces used drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-95001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}