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Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan

specialist police force of Afghanistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5176921 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) was a specialist force under the command of the Afghan National Police to conduct investigations and operations in Afghanistan related to narcotics. The CNPA was assisted by American and British police officers with international special force units.

Candidates for the 5-week long Counter Narcotics Course must have completed an 8-week basic police course and are carefully selected.

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“Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan” enters the record as specialist police force of Afghanistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Counter, Narcotics and Police can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 64-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Counter, Narcotics and Police.
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This entry incorporates text from “Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.