Afghan National Police

Afghan National Police د افغانستان ملي پولیس (Pashto) پولیس ملی افغانستان (Persian)
Abbreviation	ANP
Coat of Arms of the Afghan National Police with English Text
Flag of the Afghan National Police with English Text
Agency overview
Formed	1747
Employees	157,000 (September 2013)
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
National agency	Afghanistan
General nature	Law enforcement Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Kabul, Afghanistan
Agency executive	Nur ul-Haq Ulumi, Minister of the Interior

The Afghan National Police (ANP; Pashto: د افغانستان ملي پولیس‎; Persian: پلیس ملی افغانستان‎‎) is the primary police force of Afghanistan, serving as a single law enforcement agency all across the country. The agency is under the responsibility of Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior, headed by Nur ul-Haq Ulumi. The ANP has about 157,000 active members as of September 2013, which is expected to reach 160,000 by the end of 2014.

The Afghan police traces its roots to the early 18th-century when the Hotaki dynasty was established in Kandahar followed by Ahmad Shah Durrani's rise to power. It was reorganized in 1880 during Emir Abdur Rahman Khan's reign. The current ANP was rebuilt after the removal of the Taliban government in late 2001. Various government agencies from the United States as well as Germany's Bundespolizei (BPOL) and the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence Police provided most of the early training. In 2007, the EU-led mission (EUPOL Afghanistan) was heading the civilian policing in the Kabul area but by 2005 the United States established training programs in all the provinces of Afghanistan. As of 2009, it is being trained by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) under NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan.