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The European Union’s high-profile police mission in Afghanistan is ineffective and suffers from top-down management from Brussels, where those without any knowledge of local conditions limit local officers in carrying out their jobs, according to the former head of Eupol in Kabul.
“We found that if we had to follow all the rules, we would never get started. We went it alone – and there was progress. With the sort of inertia there is in the EU system, the war would have been over before the green light for our proposals came from Brussels,” says Kaj Vittrup, who led Eupol in Afghanistan for two years and now works in Saudi Arabia.
