Border Patrol), and the
Afghan National Civil Order Police, which is a specially trained unit that conducts civil order patrols, crisis response, and antiterrorism operations in urban areas.
An Afghan police officer also died in the late Tuesday night attack on the compound, which houses the elite
Afghan National Civil Order Police, a provincial spokesman said.
An elite police unit - the
Afghan National Civil Order Police - has been sent to the region to provide security in Marjah, but only on a temporary basis.
Thousands of Afghan security forces are also taking part in the offensive, which include troops from the Afghan National Army as well as about 100 specialists from Afghanistan's elite police unit - the
Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP).
The
Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) are now responsible for security at a key route in the northern-most security sector of Helmand.
Ioan took this photo of the Royal Irish Regiment in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, earlier this year Ioan Roberts in full body armour in Afghanistan
Afghan National Civil Order Police off icer guards the Friendship Bridge HMS Vanguard submarine in 2009
Thousands of Afghan security forces are taking part in the 'Operation Moshtarak', which include troops from the Afghan National Army as well as about 100 specialists from Afghanistan's elite police unit - the
Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP).
Three more US troops were killed on Tuesday night after a suicide attacker slammed a car bomb into the gate of the headquarters of the elite
Afghan National Civil Order Police in Kandahar.