Afghan Border Force

[3] The ABP retained 4,000 personnel for customs operations at border crossings and international airports such as checking documents of foreigners entering the country or deporting them.

[4][5] The ABF's, and its predecessor the ABP, anti-narcotic efforts were a prominent concern to the international community during the War in Afghanistan.

The ABP fell under the command of the Afghan National Police (ANP) which was under the administrative control of the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

Also Italy provided qualified training to ABP personnel in West Region by TF GRIFO deployed in Herat by the Guardia di Finanza.

[7] The ABP was known to have jointly trained with the Tajik Border Troops, its equivalent in Tajikistan, which was overseen by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Afghan Border Police (ABP) Regional Command - West in Herat Province of Afghanistan .
Members of the ABP search a locomotive near the Hairatan border crossing point.
Afghan border agent near the Afghanistan-Tajikistan Bridge at Sher Khan Bandar in Kunduz Province
Torkham in Nangarhar Province , the main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Frontier Corps Balochistan soldier (left) and the Afghan Border Police soldier (right) guards at the Friendship Gate Chaman , a border gate at Afghanistan-Pakistan border which is seven km southeast of Spin Boldak , Afghanistan.
ABP officer aiming a modified AMD-65 at the border post in Paktika Province
An Afghan Border Police agent at Khost border crossing in 2007
An ABP garrison in Kandahar Province during final inspection by United States Armed Forces .
A Hospital Corpsman instructs Afghan soldiers on proper weapons handling at the border patrol compound in Shamshad, Afghanistan
Gen. David H. Petraeus visiting Herat in 2010.