Interpol slammed Wednesday the international community's "shocking" failure to properly train Afghan police and said a mass Taliban jailbreak had revealed an "unacceptable gap in global security". The police agency's secretary general, Ronald Noble, attacked the "ongoing failure to train and equip Afghan authorities to collect store and share basic law enforcement information such as photographs, fingerprints and DNA."
Some 488 prisoners, many of them Taliban militants, tunnelled out of a jail in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar late Sunday and early Monday, three years after a previous escape from the same jail saw 900 go on the run. "It is simply shocking that three years after the largest jail break in Afghanistan history, including of convicted terrorists, there is no data to be shared with law enforcement, regionally and globally," Noble said. "Until this glaring and serious void in the world's anti-terror efforts is filled, no country can consider itself secure from criminals and terrorists who are essentially being given an opportunity to travel internationally."
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