On May 30 graduating police trainees were presented certificates in a ceremony after learning critical skills to allow them to do their jobs more effectively. The Turkish battle group commander chief colonel Hasan Usyilmaz was presiding at the ceremony.
The training will be very useful for the afghan policemen in dealing with stabilizing the area and provision of secure environment, according to NATO-ISAF sources.
The Turkish Camp Dogan hosted the course which consisted of road control and road blocking, vehicle and personnel searching, response to social incidents and introduction to military police equipment.
Turkey is with 1.200 soldiers in Afghanistan and is leading the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Wardak since November 2006. Wardak is a province in central east Afghanistan, located west of Kabul.
Turkey was leading the NATO-ISAF mission in Afghanistan from June 2002 until February 2003 (ISAF II; under Major General Hilmi Akin Zorlu), and from February 2005 until August 2005, (ISAF VII), under General Ethem Erdagi.
