Berlin - Germany gave the Afghan police a new police station at Kunduz Airport in the north of the country on Tuesday as part of a programme of police aid, the Foreign and Interior Ministries in Berlin said.

It replaced an old station with neither heating nor running water. Germany has undertaken to build 33 new police stations in the north.

Berlin has sent 3,500 soldiers to serve with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

German police are to train airport police in Kunduz as part of the European Union's EUPOL Afghanistan project.