AFGHANISTAN-ELECTION-POLICE

In this photograph taken on July 4, 2009, an Afghan trainee policeman practices with a weapon during a police training program in Kabul. Afghan police recruits clutch their guns and leopard crawl across gravel under the noon sun. A teddy bear nearby is rigged up as a fake improvised explosive device -- the favoured weapon of the Taliban. This Kabul fire station -- a former Taliban jail, says the fire chief -- is a classroom for a pre-election crash course in being a policeman in Afghanistan where the police have to be more soldier than community cop. Some 14,800 recruits have been pushed through three weeks of training for the August 20 elections. AFP PHOTO/Massoud HOSSAINI (Photo by MASSOUD HOSSAINI / AFP) (Photo by MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP via Getty Images)