On the surface, Germany has a "national police force" as well, but if you look more closely, it is really a series of regional police forces that have different rules and social mores, adapted to the region they are policing.
I am assuming the RCMP also has a different M.O. and culture for each region.
Not so much with the ANP. They send that Hazara Captain to Kandahar and tell him to "enforce the peace".
And they send that Pashtun officer to Herat and tell him to do likewise.
There is "some" attempts to localize the ANP, but most of those are window-dressing, based upon my observations.
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