With approximately 4,700 kilometers/ 3,000 miles bordering neighboring countries and more than million people, Afghanistan is a vast country with many aspects worth protecting. Three men of the Afghan Border Police, 1st Sgt. Shafiqullah Safi, 2nd Sgt. Ziauddin Nekzad, and 2nd Sgt. Nasratullah Ibrahimkhail, saw a need and answered their nation’s call. According to 1st Sgt. Shafiqullah Safi, who has seven years’ experience in the police force, he joined the Afghan police because he wanted to make Afghanistan a better place to live. In order to best serve his country, Safi decided to becom
With approximately 4,700 kilometers/ 3,000 miles bordering neighboring countries and more than million people, Afghanistan is a vast country with many aspects worth protecting. Three men of the Afghan Border Police, 1st Sgt. Shafiqullah Safi, 2nd Sgt. Ziauddin Nekzad, and 2nd Sgt. Nasratullah Ibrahimkhail, saw a need and answered their nation’s call. According to 1st Sgt. Shafiqullah Safi, who has seven years’ experience in the police force, he joined the Afghan police because he wanted to make Afghanistan a better place to live. In order to best serve his country, Safi decided to become a policemen, and recently, joined two other policemen, Nekzad and Ibrahimkhail, to attend a course where they became certified to teach future police officers in their respective locations. Over the course of three days, Safi, Nekzad, and Ibrahimkhail learned various skills and tasks required to better understand policing. One of the skill sets they tested on was emergency medical training, a useful skill for this dangerous job. Often, they will be posted at checkpoints to inspect vehicles entering the country, and some of the people in these vehicles have violent intent. The gentlemen trained their newly-learned skills with a practical exercise. The exercise began with a mock vehicle checkpoint, where the policemen stopped a vehicle to conduct a search of its contents. As they approached the vehicle, two notional suspects fled the car, leaving one in the vehicle, and the policemen were ready to respond accordingly. Using tactics from their course, they apprehended one of the suspects for questioning, tracked the other two suspects who fled the scene, and discovered that the notional suspects led them to a building filled with jugs and bags, components indicating IEDs might be made inside. The practical exercise ended with a notional firefight, where Ibrahimkhail becomes wounded but was able to neutralize the threat from the suspects. Safi and Nekzad quickly go t
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