President Karzai has been advocating for the abolition of private security firms in Afghanistan for a number of years. He has now charged the Afghan Public Protection Force or APPF with absorbing the various security firms by March 21, 2012. Organizations (USAID, NGOs, ISAF, etc.) that depend on the protection of the APPF supervised security companies are not impressed thus far. They don't think the program is ready and see signs of cost overruns and corruption already.
Read more in "Afghan private security handover looking messy", Boston.com, February 10, 2012.
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