Hundreds of policemen threatened to quit service in Afghanistan
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TIRINKOT - Hundreds of policemen in central Uruzgan province of Afghanistan have threatened to quit service.
Policemen say they have not received their salaries for the last six months and threaten to quit the force over the non-payment, Pajhwok News has reported.
According to local officials, 3,800 national and local policemen oerform duty in Tirinkot, the provincial capital, and six districts of the province.
More than 500 of these policemen complain they did not receive their salaries for the last six months.
A number of urban garrison policemen operating under the police headquarters told Pajhwok Afghan News that they were in serious trouble being short of money.
Graan, one of the policemae, said they had several times asked the police chief and other officials to pay their salaries, but they always made excuses.
He said officials had told them they would borrow money and pay their salaries of one month and register them in the biometric system as formal policemen.
Graan said he had been in the police for the past 13 years but officials now wanted deceive him under the pretext of registering in the biometric system.
Fazal Rahim, another policeman in Uruzgan, said whenever they ask for their rights, they are accused of making trouble.
The policemen warned to leave their jobs if their salaries were not paid.
