Cabinet ministers have approached political party leaders to sound them out about expanding the current police training mission in northern Afghanistan, the Volkskrant reports on Thursday.

The cabinet is poised to publish a briefing for MPs in which it will argue for an expansion in the training programme to include other categories of police officers, the paper says.
In particular, any move to include border police in the training programme could prove controversial. Afghanistan wants its border police to have a similar role to the Dutch marechaussee or military police and that could conflict with the ‘civilian’ focus of the Dutch mission.
MPs are due to debate the mission, based in the northern province of Kunduz, next year.