Left Lieutenant General Kohdamani and Noorulhayat Hayat police officer from Kandahar

Police officers at the graduation ceremony

July 2 2006: Police officers from 14 provinces of Afghanistan, including officers from the Ministry of the Interior in Kabul, have graduated from a 20 days seminar on basic computer skills and training on the Electronic Payroll System and Human Resource Database which is part of the Law and Order Trust Fund’s (LOTFA) support to the police service. 

In an official ceremony certificates were distributed to 43 police officers by Lieutenant General Kohdamani, the Head of the Regional Education Department of the Interior Ministry. 

Colonel Mohammad Maassoum, Head of the Planning Unit of Helmand police said: “We learnt and familiarized ourselves with the basics of computers, the Electronic Payroll System (EPS) and Human Resource Database. Now we are over the problems that we were facing so far. Payrolls and accounting took a lot of time in the past, but with the new computer system we can do them very efficiently in a very short period of time and we can report to the capital quickly.” 

This is the first time that the Electronic Payroll System and Human Resource Database has been used by the police of Afghanistan. Up to now everything had to be done by hand writing which was time consuming and inefficient. The use of the new systems will also enable the ministry to pay the salaries of the police on time and to limit the possibilities of corruption in the processing of salary payments. 

Bashirullah Khpalwan from the State building & Government Support programme of UNDP told the seminar participants: “With the support of its international partners UNDP is standing on its commitment and the only wish that UNDP has from you is that everything you have learnt from the seminar you should deliver that to your provinces.”