“We are talking about post-peace when the peace is not yet known,” Mr. Andarabi said. But in a sign of how distrusted and depleted the regular police forces had become, the ministry had to draw heavily on the elite special forces. To aid their fight, Mr. Andarabi has introduced improvements. But all that was mostly to try to stop the bleeding on the battlefield and establish basic accountability. Mr. Andarabi also believed that it was time to improve the force’s crime-fighting, too.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2020 17:03 UTC