Criminal Justice Task Force

Cases The Criminal Justice Task Force deals with drug related cases according to Afghan laws and convicts its criminals according to Counter Narcotics law. When a case with no identified suspect arrives at the CJTF, the CJTF develop the case and identify and arrest the suspects involved with the help of Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan.

Mr. Noor Mohammad “Zazai”, Head of the CJTF Investigation and Laboratory Deptartment said to a AGAHEE Magazine reporter: “within the last eleven months of Islamic Year 1388, 116 cases without suspects have been received and developed by CJTF Investigation and Laboratory dept and work continues to try and resolve them.”

He said that the reason for these kind of cases are that during arrest and seizure operations suspects flee the scene. The CJTF investigation and laboratory department is trying to conduct professional seminars on how best to take the investigation of these cases forward.

In a review conducted by Criminal Justice Task Force to find a list of the highest convictions of each province, it has been found that Helmand province has provided the greatest number of convictions in the third quarter of 1388, said Khalilu Rahman Motawakel CJTF Communications Director and Spokesperson in a press conference held on January 17 2010 at Government Media and Information Center.

Mr. Motawakel said; within the third quarter of Islamic Year 1388, the convictions of 102 drug traffickers have been finalized by the Supreme Court of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Within this quarter, 4 drug traffickers from Kabul City, 10 from Nangarhar, 12 from Kandahar, 22 from Helmand, 13 from Herat, 7 from Nimroz, one from Faryab, 6 from Farah, 6 from Balkh, one from Badakhshan, 2 from Takhar, 4 from Badghis, 5 from Bamiyan, 2 from Paktiya, one from Zabul, 5 from Kunduz and one from Parwan province have been convicted and received sentences of up to 19 years imprisonment and received fines of up to two million Afghanis.

International Smuggling Ring Disrupted

Arrest Shafiullah Dawoodi, Acting Chief of the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF), Prosecution Department in Kabul, announces the recent arrest and conviction of the members of a drug smuggling ring engaged in trafficking large quantities of heroin from Afghanistan to Africa and beyond.This victory represents the continuing struggle of the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) and the Special Narcotics Prosecutors of the Attorney General’s Office against drug trafficking networks in Afghanistan.

Chimicals In a series of CJTF prosecutions, a drug smuggling ring engaged in trafficking chemical precursors used in the manufacture of narcotics has recently been disrupted by the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan and the suspects were sent to jail.

The members of this network included nine Afghan nationals, who were involved in selling the chemical precursors to drug traffickers in several provinces, and now they are serving lengthy prison terms.

Mrs. Jamila, head of the CJTF investigation and laboratory division’s second committee said that the members of the network had been smuggling the chemical precursors into Afghanistan and then providing them to provincial drug traffickers. She said the members of the network were successfully arrested by the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan and their operations were stopped.

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Welcome to the CJTF Website

The Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) was set up as an end to end, Afghan process to bring to justice those involved in serious narco-crime within Afghanistan. It was set up by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in May 2005 and has a mandate through the Counter Narcotics law to investigate and prosecute all serious drug-related offences from across the country. The CJTF was the first example of such a process in Afghanistan, and achieves its aims by co-locating secondees from the Supreme Court, the Office of the Attorney General, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice in one secure location.