"The vast majority of forces there are friendly and they invited us in," he observed.
The majority of forces that remain in Afghanistan will be in a training and mentoring role, for example the Afghan Officer National Training Academy.
Police leaders told us tackling domestic abuse is important but in the majority of forces it is a priority on paper only and not in practice.
The majority of forces said it was not possible to collect the information because the scale of the task was too big.
Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: "In the majority of forces, the benefits have not so far extended beyond simply allowing officers to spend more time out of the station.
The move from the area reflects the reality on the ground in Helmand where the US provides the overwhelming majority of forces and the British contingent is under American command.
Inside the White House, as a senior administration official put it, the current question is "When can we make this look more like Bosnia or Kosovo?" Those are places where American troops do not make up a majority of forces on the ground, and where peacekeepers operate without excessive concern that their Humvees or the United Nations headquarters will be blown up.
"The vast majority of forces are rising to the challenge we set them of improving services while making their contribution to reducing the deficit.
The vast majority of forces in the UK already use Twitter and Facebook to interact with the public, according to the report.
The vast majority of forces do not have separate child-friendly facilities and so they have to be held in the same place as adults.
