WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US teams in charge of training security forces in Afghanistan are short of some 2,300 trainers to set up a national police force, team commander Major General Robert Cone said Tuesday.

"The Afghan police are several years behind the Afghan Army," the commander of the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan said in a video news conference from Afghanistan.

There is a "shortage in the police training mission ... right now the number is about 2,300 police trainers that we are short," said Cone, who heads an 8,000-strong team: 3,000 civilians and 5,000 military personnel, including 800 coalition members.

"We think it is a joint responsibility of all the (15) nations contributing" to the coalition forces, he said, adding that Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and Germany "are considering increasing their commitment" to the training force.

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