Two served with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and one with the Royal Corps of Signals. Next of kin have been told.
The MoD said the soldiers were shot and fatally wounded as they left a checkpoint in Helmand province.
More than 20 foreign personnel have been killed in so-called rogue shootings in Afghanistan this year.
An MoD spokesman said: "Their loss will be felt deeply across
the task force, however that will be nothing compared with the grief
experienced by their families at home. Our thoughts and prayers are with
them at this extremely difficult time."
The gunman was injured and later detained, Nato said.
The soldiers were part of a Nato-led Isaf force who have been
training Afghan counterparts ahead of a handover of security
responsibility by 2014.
Growing resentment
Observers say the rogue shootings have eroded morale among foreign forces.
BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt says background
checks are carried out on Afghan troops and police in a bid to ensure
that people are not sympathetic to insurgent factions.
Isaf, Nato's force in the country, said in a statement on
Sunday: "An individual wearing an Afghan National Civil Order Police
uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance
Force service members in southern Afghanistan today, killing three
service members."
In February public opinion against the foreign forces in
Afghanistan was inflamed by revelations that US troops burned copies of
the Koran at a base in Afghanistan - reportedly by accident.
The shooting of 16 Afghans by a US soldier in March has also created resentment.
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