By Abdul Wali Arian
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday said a number of influential people are abusing their authority by using police force members for their own purposes, including that of bodyguards.
The MoI said this was against the law.
Currently 157,000 police officers are employed by the ministry of interior, but a number of them are not at their assigned posts and are instead being used by government officials for personal reasons.
“Their main duty is maintaining security. But many police force members are working for people who do not need them and it is against the law. In the last two months we have started the process to redeploy them to their assigned stations,” said Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the MoI.
According to security departments, Parliament Members (MPs), provincial council members, prosecutors, high-ranking government high officials and even powerful individuals use police for their personal work.
“In one of their (officials) cars you can see up to 10 armed men with different weapons and it is worrying,” said Sayed Kamal Sadat, police chief of Balkh province.
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