i think that security overall is a positive trend in baraki barak. we are making improvements. on the local and village level, people getting fed up with violence. not only coming to us to seek assistance, but also, in some cases, working always to take care of themselves, because nobody can take care of people as well as they can take care of themselves. when you start to see that sort of stuff happening, which we are starting to see success is down the road. there is a local sound that is near a major road. it is a battleground at times. when we move through that area, which is necessary, the enemy comes from outside and uses that location to right. people in this town are uni nvolved and are seeing the negative consequences of that sort of fighting. what we see is encouraging that the people in the town are coming here to the district center to see the sub-governor and the other agents we have here and think it's them, ask for help, and bring a potential ways -- and engage them and ask for help. that is a sign of progress. the government is going to solve their problems and

how does that factor into your asenment into what baraki barak needs?> it can go a couple of ways as far as that is concerned. because of the resources we have, we have to set certain priorities. talking about from a partner perspective with the after gaps. we have set priorities. in some ways you can only be so many places at times. you have to pick those priorities and move forward with that plan. and then reassess and make sure next week you still think you're doing the right things. we are focused where the population centers are. that's our primary task. if we can provide security to the populace, they buy into the afghan national security force. once we have that accomplished in the populated areas, we can start moving out into the less populated areas and conduct a similar sort of method. >> what do you think is the most difficult part of your mission here? not for you personally but for the company? >> i think a lot of times partnering is a challenge on a day-to-day basis just because our armies are different. we do things differently and i thin

the main issue in baraki barak, the number-one factor is police.hen you have a district with 100,000 people in it and you have 4345 police to secure the population, obviously, the challenge is to -- and when you have 43-45 police to secure the population, obviously the challenge is to increase those numbers of police. many communities have community policing. they need our support to handle than -- to handle that. if somebody calls them, they need to be able to provide assistance because if they do not, they will lose the trust of the people. and that is paramount. the numbers keep increasing. if we work with what we have. -- we work with what we have as far as facilitating them and helping them secure their district. and from the afghan perspective, the afghan government side and the ministry of justice, the ministry of interior, they worked together to increase those numbers. but with quantity we also need quality. there are folks that are not quite ready yet. >> there are top -- there are pockets of the baraki barak district where the taliban ha