The US military has halted the training of some members of the Afghan Local Police force for at least a month following a string of attacks on international forces by men in Afghan National Security Force uniforms.Sunday’s announcement would affect about 1,000 new recruits to the ALP, a security force separate from the Afghan National Police that operates in the more insecure and remote areas of the Central Asian nation.“The training of the ALP [Afghan Local Police] recruits has been paused while we go through this re-vetting process, to take a look at this process to see if there’s anything that we can improve,’’ Lieutenant Colonel John Harrell, a spokesman for US special operations forces in Afghanistan, said. “It may take a month, it may take two months, we don’t know.’’The remainder of the 16,000-strong force, that operates independently of the national police force, will be re-vetted by the US Special Operations Command.There have been 34 friendly fire attacks this year - at least 15 in August alone - that have killed 45 international troops.
