Afghan officers will begin to take charge of the prison facility at Bagram, currently run by the US military, from next week. Addressing a news conference at the jail near the capital Kabul on Saturday, US and Afghan officials said the handover of the prison would be gradual over the coming year as Afghan officers still require training. "This is the start of the process," Mohammad Qaseem Hashimzai, Afghanistan's deputy justice minister, told reporters. "As a first step we will soon send a team of judicial officials [and] in three months the Afghan national army will take control of the prison facility," he said. "By January 2011 we'll be in full control of the prison." General Mohammad Akram, the deputy defence minister, said that in two years the facility would pass from army control to the ministry of justice.
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