Speech by Major Gulghotai Shirzai International Islamic Police Women’s Conference held October 21 to 15, 2007 at the Serena Hotel Kabul, Afghanistan |
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Police Women in the Counter Narcotics Department With the permission of our guests and police professionals! First of all, I would like to welcome our police sisters who have come from different Muslim countries to exchange ideas and to visit our police women in this conference. I would like to introduce myself briefly: My name is Gulghotai and my family name is Shirzai. My rank is Major. I graduated from the Police Academy in 1981 with a diploma. I have been working as a police officer in different police departments, although I have mostly worked in the CID department in investigation and identification of criminal. It is clear that the current cultivation and traffic in drugs in our country is a major threat and is arranged by armed groups and organized crime. Their activities cause corruption and the traffic in drugs provides economic support to terrorism and organized crime. The justice and legal police was established in 2005 under the Counter Narcotics Department, Ministry of Interior Affairs. In the year 2006, the Counter Narcotics Department evaluated 418 cases, which involved 555 men and eight women. In 2007, 235 cases, involving 263 people were evaluated and sent to the counter narcotics special attorneys for more investigation. Twenty-seven of the cases in 2006 were investigated by me. The procedure for evaluating counter narcotics cases is as follows: The cases are sent from the provinces and Kabul and, after the police has evaluated the cases and made a decision they will be sent to the Investigation Directorate. The investigator studies the papers, which include the arresting form, searching form, and a sample of the confiscated drug, and then decides whether to accept the case. Based on Section 41.7 (5) of the criminal law, after the investigator adds comments, the case will be sent to the assigned Department of Counter Narcotics attorney. The sample of the confiscated drug will be sent to the laboratory for analysis. The mobile phone of the suspect will be sent to the Directorate of Intelligence Analysis. Then the case will be sent to an assigned general attorney of Counter Narcotics. At the beginning of the year 2007, I was enrolled in a CID course for one month in the National Police Center. After the completion of the course I started the Suspect Identification Office. In it 173 suspects were identified and registered. After the identification and registration, I was responsible for completing 305 fingerprint forms, 530 hand palm forms, 305 suspect index cards, and 305 criminal detailed photo forms and sent them to the Criminal Technique Directorate of the General Department of CID, Ministry of Interior Affairs. To finish, I would like to thank Ms. Tonita Murray from Canada and Anne Louise Øxseth from the Norwegian Police who have made a lot of effort for improving the professional skills of Afghan Police Women. |