A couple of things come to bear when we're looking at the training of the Afghan National Police. First of all, there is progress. When you look at the capacity and at the numbers you'd like to have, there are a couple of things that work into it. There has been a pay discrepancy between police and army. Added to that, for some period of time—and we'll report on this in the next quarter—literally the mortality rate of those in the Afghan National Police force was higher than those on the army side. So you can imagine that you're in a recruiting program and possible recruits are looking at the situation and saying they get less pay for being a police officer and a higher chance of being killed. They are literally, quite rightly, doing their evaluation on that score. We've been addressing that. When Minister Cannon and I were over there recently, we announced an extra $21 million to go to salary and benefits to help deal with that discrepancy.
The other thing that kicks in is that when they hit a certain level of training, many of them literally get recruited to other areas, as would happen in any society, maybe to where there is a lower level of police being trained. Now you have trained people. The good ones stand out, and they're literally recruited away, so the numbers then show that. We have to be transparent and show how many we have in Kandahar who we say we're going to train. There's a number of factors there.
I can say that when I was in Afghanistan—this time as opposed to the last time—we went out through the city. We visited police substations that had been built, which weren't there before, and officers who had been trained. One of the positive developments is that they are reporting a much higher level of intelligence coming back from locals. When they see there's a police station built and that there are uniformed officers and there is some degree of stability being offered by those officers, we are now seeing people come forward with intelligence, as you would expect with a mature police force, let's say, in North America where people would come forward with information.
So progress is being made, but those are a couple of factors where the benchmarks have not been hit.