Bagram Airmen provide ANP training

PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan - An Afghan National Police officer answers a question during a training class conducted by the Bagram Police Technical Advisory Team, Provincial Reconstruction Team at the Parwan Provincial ANP Headquarters in the Charikar district April 22. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway)

Bagram Airmen provide ANP training

PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Tech. Sgt. Christopher Padron and Senior Airman Mark Ostrander stand with members of the Afghan National Police at the Parwan Provincial ANP Headquarters in the Charikar district April 22. Sergeant Padron and Airman Ostrander provided the ANP with training focused on community policing and conducting field interviews. Sergeant Pardon, NCO-in-charge Bagram Police Technical Advisory Team, Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team, is deployed from the 27th Special Operations Security Forces Squadron, Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. Airman Ostrander, PTAT member, Bagram PRT, is deployed from the 55th Security Forces Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway)

Bagram Airmen provide ANP training

PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Senior Airman Mark Ostrander shakes hands with a young boy during a foot patrol here April 22. Airman Ostrander, Police Technical Advisory Team member, Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team, is deployed from the 55th Security Forces Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway)

Bagram Airmen provide ANP training

Published April 28, 2008
By Tech. Sgt. James Law
455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- Approximately one dozen Afghan National Police from several districts gathered in the Processing Coordination Center at the Parwan Provincial ANP Headquarters in the Charikar district to receive training April 22.

Airmen filling an in-lieu-of taskings assigned to the Bagram Police Technical Advisory Team provided the training focused on community policing and conducting field interviews.

"The purpose of this training is to test and assess the level of knowledge they have with community policing and the field interview process," said Tech. Sgt. Christopher Padron, NCO-in-charge Bagram PTAT.

Sergeant Padron said one of the goals of the training was to provide the attendees with a different perspective about interacting with the people.

"All too often, they have to respond to suicide bombers and Improvised Explosive Devices," said Sergeant Padron. "The field interview is not always done because of hostile acts."

The training covered how to approach a person, the distance between the officer and the subject known as the reactionary gap, and information gathering.

Abdul Rahim, the training officer for the Salang district ANP, said the information he will take away from the training is how to talk to people when they go out to the villages.

"The ANP is the eye of the people," said Rahim. "We need to have good habits and good contact with the people."

Rahim explained he thought the training was helpful and wanted to take what he learned back to his district to teach the younger soldiers.

After the classroom instruction, members of the ANP, Bagram PTAT and Parwan Police Mentoring Team jointly patrolled the bazaar interacting with local merchants.

"This gives us the opportunity to develop a relationship with the ANP and for each of us to gain a better understanding of what they encounter as well as for them to see how we operate," said Sergeant Padron.

The Bagram PRT has completed more than $18 million worth of construction projects, delivered more than 80 tons of humanitarian aid and provided mentorship for provincial and district leaders and the Afghan National Police.