10/02/2015 (Agence Europe) - EUPOL Afghanistan has head of mission until end 2015. On Tuesday 10 February, the Political and Security Committee (PSC) formally appointed Pia Stjernvall from Finland as head of the EU police mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL Afghanistan). Stjernvall is not a new face in the headquarters of this EU police mission in Kabul as she has been deputy head of mission since June 2014 and acting head of mission since 1 January 2015. Her new mandate runs from 16 February 2015 until 31 December 2015, although the mission's mandate comes to an end on 31 December 2016. The mission has recently started focusing just on advisory tasks at strategic level to the Afghan ministry of the interior and Afghan national police for 2015 and 2016, and to the Afghan ministry of justice and the office of the prosecutor general for the current year. (JK)