The association representing Bundeswehr soldiers says Germany is not fulfilling its role in Afghanistan as the leading trainer of Afghan police recruits.
Association chairman Bernhard Gertz says some of Germany's regional states, noteably Bavaria, had not contributed a single civilian police trainer. The task had often been left up to German infantry trainers in a crisis region that needed civil order. Gertz' remarks to the newspaper "Rhinepfalz" have been rejected by the German interior ministry. It says Germany currently has 63 police officers in Afghanistan and funding this year for Afghan police trainees has been tripled.
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