Acting Interior Minister Wais Ahamd Barmak on Sunday said if crime dose not decrease in Kabul in the next two weeks, all the police chiefs from the capital's police districts will be fired. 

Barmak sharply criticized them for their lack of accountability and widespread corruption among the police forces and said this situation is no longer acceptable. 

Barmak raised the issue of some corruption cases that have happened among the police forces. 

“The (complainant) calls to the PD’s crime officer and says my phone is stolen, what should I do? Crime officer asks where it happened? The complainant tells them what area. Then the crime officer tells the complainant not to worry I will find your phone by 4pm. Then at 4pm he brings the phone and says this is your phone. When the phone owner asks where he found it the officer asks the complainant why he wants to know, and says at least your phone is found,” said Barmak. 

Barmak also said the attack on Paktia police headquarters and on a police post in Kunduz’s Khanabad district should be investigated. 

According to Barmak, the crime levels have been increasing in Kabul and police forces have been involved in some instances. 

“Two officers told two men who were detained to go and steal that phone from that boy, otherwise we will put you behind bars. Then the men stole the phone and submitted to the employees and everything ends here,” Barmak added. 

Barmak called on the nation not to give bribes to police forces and urged the people to help the interior ministry identify corrupt officials. 

“From one province several hundred thousand AFs comes to five to six bank accounts daily (belonging to a Public Protection Forces employee). He is a very ordinary employee and perhaps it is about five to seven years that he works there. But today he is a millionaire and speaks of millions of AFs. From where does this money come? It is the money of the police, those police who do not receive bread. Why do the police not receive bread?” asked Barmak.

The interior ministry's counterterrorism department head Najib Aman meanwhile said easy access to weapons is one of the reasons that crime has increased in Kabul city. He also said thousands of weapons licenses were being printed outside the country. 

“The licenses (for carrying weapons) are very low quality and the program used was leaked and now the cards get printed outside of the country,” said Aman. 

In recent weeks incidents of crime increased dramatically in Kabul city - including that of kidnappings, which has raised serious concerns. 

Only in the last week, more than 10 kidnappings have been registered in Kabul city.