Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sacked dozens of top police officials, days after serious anti-US rioting in the capital, Kabul.
The Kabul police chief among more than 80 senior officers who were either sacked or relocated.
The president's office said the shake-up was part of long-planned police reforms.
But an interior ministry official said the changes were speeded up after Monday's riots.
The riots - among the worst in the capital since the fall of the Taleban in 2001 - were sparked by a road crash involving a US military vehicle.
An Afghan investigation into the incident had been due to start on Saturday but has been delayed by a day.
Last month, the international lobby group, Human Rights Watch, told President Karzai that a number of men being considered for senior police posts were known human rights abusers.
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