Report: U.S. millions spent on Afghanistan police poorly tracked

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Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- Despite the U.S. spending more than half a billion dollars to build an Afghanistan police force, it is impossible to know how many police are on the job and whether the right people are getting paid, according to a new report.

The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Monday called for renewed efforts by the U.S. State and Defense Departments to track police payroll costs and work force numbers.

The 39-page critique comes as the Afghanistan government, with significant U.S. investment and training, is beefing up its police force from 81,000 to 134,000 by October this year. The U.S. and other international donors have contributed more than $1.5 billion to fund the police force, with the U.S. providing more than a third of that amount.

The SIGAR report said the Afghanistan Ministry of the Interior was trying to overhaul police employment and payroll records, in some cases with sophisticated biometric tracking of employees with fingerprints and iris scans.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/25/afghanistan.funding/index.html

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