Findings of the Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) show that there has been no significant progress in response to recommendations that were made to the Afghan Ministry of Interior toward fighting corruption in the vulnerable departments within the entity. 

According to the MEC findings, from 10 recommendations that were made, covering areas such as procurement, logistics and human resources, only one of the recommendations has been implemented in the past six months.

The MEC's chief executive said that 97 percent of police personnel have not been included in the salary payment system.

“After more than five months of progress, the Ministry of Interior has been able to fully execute one complete recommendation out of ten recommendations during the monitoring period,” said Mudasir Islami, a member of the MEC.

“They say that promotions and appointments are being carried out in one week, but in our interview with some people, they told us that their promotions and appointments took months,” said Maiwand Rouhani, CEO of MEC.

But, the Ministry of Interior said that the body is fully committed to implementing MEC’s anti-graft recommendations.

“The Ministry of Interior has implemented reforms agendas in the areas of human resource, procurement and logistics,” said Tariq Aryan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.

In February  2019, the MEC issued 56 reports about the corruption vulnerabilities that exist in the human resources, procurement and logistics departments of the Ministry of Interior and made ten recommendations to the Ministry of Interior to fight corruption in those departments.

However, there are indications that fighting corruption in these areas faces problems.