Training start in ANA Military Police School in Kabul
Members of the Croatian Armed Forces of the 17th contingent deployed in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, assigned to the tasks of mentoring in the Military Police School in Kabul, began a few days ago with the training of Afghan National Army (ANA).
ANA Military Police School in Kabul, where the leading nation is the Republic of Croatia, is part of the NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan. Currently 17 CAF mentors and two mentors from the Slovenian Armed Forces have been deployed in the School, with 68 members of the 215th Company of the ANA MP Corps undergoing training. In coming days it was planned to start training for members of the 205th ANA MP Corps and 26 ANA NCOs assigned to duties in the School.
Croatian mentoring team was engaged for the first time in the frame of the 16th HRVCON during September 2010, while the Croatian Armed Forces took a leading role in the development of the Military Police School of the Afghan National Army (ANA) after sending the 17th contingent in March 2011. The principal task of this team is to manage mentoring and organization of training process of ANA Military Police. Croatia as a leading nation in ANA MP School has a primary function of management and organization of the educational process. It also includes management and support to all other functional areas such as logistics, personnel management, communications and information systems, etc. Commander of HRV mentoring team in the ANA Military Police School is Brigadier Ivica Olujic.
Based on the Croatian initiative for the establishment of joint regional mentoring teams which would operate under NATO training mission in Afghanistan, it is expected until the end of this year that other armed forces’ members from countries of A5 initiative (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Albania) will joint the mentoring process.