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	CANADIAN MILITARY POLICE 1914 - 2001
		In these pages there are images of badges, uniforms, equipment and other material employed by the Military Police Services of the Canadian Navy, Army and Air Force over the past 90 years.
		In addition, this website also serves to illustrate the development of Canadian military uniforms and equipment in general.
		This website is entirely my responsibility and does not reflect the views or policies of the Department of National Defence, The Military Police Branch or any other Canadian Government Department.
	www.mpmuseum.org (299 words)

	GoArmy.com > Army ROTC > Military Police Officer
		Military Police Officer training includes completion of the Military Police Officer Basic Course (MPOBC), where you will learn leadership skills, tactics, maintenance and operational aspects of the systems and tools used in the Military Police Corps.
		Military Police Officers can continue in the Operations career field, serving in the Army Military Police Branch at ever increasing levels of leadership and responsibility.
		Coordinating employment of Military Police Soldiers at all levels of command, from company to division level and beyond, in U.S. and multi-national operations.
	www.goarmy.com /RotcViewJob.do?id=300 (329 words)

	Army Lineage Series: Military Police
		Although organized military police units were relatively rare in the Union Army, General McClellan established the Office of Provost Marshal General of the Army of the Potomac and appointed Colonel Porter, lately returned from his duties in Washington, to command the unit.
		Ironically, the increase in the number of military police companies resulted in a weakening in the strength of all military police companies in the AEF, because Pershing was forced to cut down on the size and number of divisional military police units in order to provide trained manpower for the new units.
		To perform military police responsibilities in the field, the War Department authorized larger military police units, with the battalion (later in the war it changed to group) prescribed as the largest unit in higher headquarters.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Lineage/mp/mp.htm (4972 words)

	DefendAmerica News - U.S. MPs Partner with Iraqi Police
		CAMP VICTORY, Iraq, April 4, 2005 — U.S. military police and Iraqi police are working together in a partnership program to better train, support and secure the future of Iraq.
		There are three types of police forces in Baghdad that military police partner with: traffic police, patrol police and Baghdad police.
		The Baghdad Police Academy is learning how to better use the equipment they’re being issued and secure the environment for the Iraqi populace.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/apr2005/a040405wm1.html (486 words)

	701st Military Police Battalion Military Police - Find Articles
		The 701st Military Police Battalion, one of the first such battalions in the US Army, was activated at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on 1 February 1941, with a cadre from the 1st and 20th Infantry Regiments.
		The military police and a few quartermaster troops were the only units assigned to the base.
		Military police were assigned to assist the quartermaster in distributing the food, but when they opened one of the doors of the blockhouse, liquefied cabbage poured out.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBW/is_2_4/ai_n7072704 (892 words)

	Military Police - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Military Police, any of various law enforcement and guard units of the military services, serving chiefly to protect military personnel, safeguard...
		The Transport Police are responsible for maintaining law and order on public transport.
		They are widely used by police and military forces around the world.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Military_Police.html (125 words)

	Police Chief Magazine - View Article
		Military Authority: The second key element is authority that is governed by Title 10 and Title 18 of the United States Code, which establishes the law enforcement authority and responsibility for the military.
		Military Operations: Military police, security forces, and Department of Defense criminal investigators perform duties that are common among all law enforcement personnel.
		Community policing, crime prevention, traffic control and management, and domestic violence response are but a few of the ongoing programs that mirror their civilian counterparts.
	policechiefmagazine.org /magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=227&issue_id=22004 (1978 words)

	Military Police
		As the war drew to and end and the South was occupied, the duties of the provost marshals expanded from strictly military discipline to include law enforcement in the occupied territories and the administration of government functions, thereby becoming the first American forces engaged in military government.
		Military police units distinguished themselves in combat on a number of occasions, in addition to their normal duties; but on Armistice Day, the Corps was once again disbanded, although individual MP units continued to operate until the Army ended its occupation of Germany.
		All functions of a professional police force were in place by the end of the war, plus those functions unique to police in the military.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/general_military/12923/3 (384 words)

	Military Police Regimental Asssociation
		The Military Police Corps is one of the youngest branches of the United States Army.
		Soldiers have been performing police duties from the time of the Revolutionary War when these duties were assigned mainly to a mounted police force called the "troops of the Marechaussee." Soldiers in the Veterans Reserve Corps and Provost Corps performed military police duties during the Civil War.
		Military Police are maintaining order in war-torn Bosnia, as well as conducting patrols, operating checkpoints, and conducting investigations in an effort to keep the peace in Kosovo.
	www.militarypolicegiftshop.com /aboutmpra.html (1220 words)

	CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Afghan abuse claims to be probed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		OTTAWA (CP) - The civilian watchdog over the military police announced Friday that it will investigate allegations that Canadian soldiers may have roughed up detainees in Afghanistan and that their misdeeds were ignored by police.
		"The possible abuse of defenceless persons in (military) custody, regardless of their actions prior to apprehension, and the possibility that military police members may have knowingly or negligently failed to investigate such abuse and may otherwise have failed to follow proper protocols for the treatment of detainees, are matters of serious concern."
		Attaran said there are hints in the documents that the military police didn't bother to investigate the injuries and took procedural shortcuts to hustle the men out of Canadian hands and into the custody of Afghan authorities.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/2007/02/09/3569290-cp.html (674 words)

	Other Military Police Brassards
		Israeli military police use a small strip of cloth, that hangs down from the shoulder strap, to indicate the unit to which they are assigned.
		This same type of brassard is worn by military police from various Central and South American countries, but generally with white letters on a blue-fl brassard, similar to the US brassard.
		The armed forces of the USSR did not have military police as such as there was no such thing as "crime" within the utopia of the Soviet Union and it was therefore totally unnecessary to have a force to police the armed forces.
	home.mweb.co.za /re/redcap/brassard.htm (1742 words)

	Military police transformation Military Police - Find Articles
		Each BCT will have a military police planning section consisting of a captain (provost marshal) and a sergeant first class to plan, coordinate, integrate, and synchronize military police support for brigade operations.
		Many military police soldiers will be promoted and will serve in positions not normally associated with their ranks.
		Within a few months, new military police units will activate as a result of the internment/resettlement (I/R) redesign approved by the Army Chief of Staff and the decision made by senior Army leadership to increase the size of the Military Police Corps within all Army components.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBW/is_1_5/ai_n15674088 (908 words)

	Job opportunities in the armed forces
		Bear in mind that the recruiter’s job is to recruit promising applicants into his or her branch of military service, so the information that the recruiter gives you is likely to stress the positive aspects of military life in the branch in which he or she serves.
		Military personnel are stationed throughout the United States and in many countries around the world.
		In addition to receiving their basic pay, military personnel are provided with free room and board (or a tax-free housing and subsistence allowance), free medical and dental care, a military clothing allowance, military supermarket and department store shopping privileges, 30 days of paid vacation a year (referred to as leave), and travel opportunities.
	www.bls.gov /oco/ocos249.htm (5588 words)

	Lone Sentry: MP: The Story of the Corps of Military Police -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		During the crucial hours of the German drive, the Corps of Military Police, with units assigned to every echelon of command, became a prime controlling influence—the pivot on which the holding and regrouping of American troops depended.
		On Nov. 25, Military Police struck—CID agents, officers and men of the 709th and 787th MP Bns.
		The Corps of Military Police was organized in 1941 as a separate branch of the service.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/militarypolice (5567 words)

	Army.com - Enlist Topics Of Interest - Military Police Unit Training
		Even though the 327th is made up primarily of Military Police and Corrections Officers, when they're training or getting mobilized, they have to eat.
		One of the responsibilities of a Military Police or Corrections Officer is to process prisoners.
		Since the 327th is a Military Police Battalion, its important to be able to look at a situation and analyze it's potential for danger.
	www.army.com /enlist/reserve-training-military-police.html (740 words)

	CNN.com - More details of Army's abuse probe surface - Jan. 26, 2004
		It is not clear whether any photographs were taken, but several military police at the prison have been removed from duty until the matter is resolved, a military source said.
		A U.S. military source said the pictures would constitute criminal activity unless it could be demonstrated they were taken for official reasons related to processing and handling of detainees.
		A military official last week said the Army is concerned there are problems of "poor discipline, poor leadership, and a need for re-training," in the military police community.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/01/26/sprj.nirq.abuse/index.html (369 words)

	DefenseLink News Article: Guard Soldiers Learn Military Police Skills
		Military police officers have to be able to cope with combat in an urban environment.
		Those citizen-soldiers from Tennessee's 2nd Battalion, 115th Field Artillery, have been reclassified as military police officers after four weeks of nonstop training here because, for the time being, the Army needs a lot more MPs than it needs artillery troops to help wage the global war against terrorism.
		The reservists are under the active Army's 14th Military Police Brigade, commanded by Col. Joseph Rapone II.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/newsarticle.aspx?id=27138 (1259 words)

	Iraq: Insecurity Driving Women Indoors (Human Rights Watch Press release, New York, July 16, 2003)
		The Human Rights Watch report found that police officers gave low priority to allegations of sexual violence and abduction, that the police were under-resourced, and that victims of sexual violence confronted indifference and sexism from Iraqi law enforcement personnel.
		The report also found that U.S. military police were not filling the gap when Iraqi police were unwilling or unable to conduct serious investigations of sexual violence and abduction.
		Iraqi police failed to take a statement from the witnesses and thus no investigation was opened into the abduction of that young woman.
	www.hrw.org /press/2003/07/iraq071603.htm (726 words)

	Military Police Got Instructions at Iraqi Prison
		Military officials said on Monday that the United States had months ago quietly abandoned an early plan to designate as unlawful combatants some of the prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq.
		Several military police officers and their commanders at Abu Ghraib have said that military intelligence officers directed them to "set the conditions" to enhance the questioning.
		He took command of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade in July, after the unit had been in Iraq for more than three months, as part of the V Corps, which is based in Heidelberg, Germany.
	www.pipeline.com /~rougeforum/militarypolice.html (1311 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. missed need for prison personnel in war plans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And because the military intelligence unit sent to Abu Ghraib was short of interrogators, commanders patched together substitutes from other military units and from private contractors.
		These are MPs — "31 Echoes" in military jargon — who have spent four weeks at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri working in a mock prison and learning the basics: how to keep track of inmates, establish rapport with prisoners and quell a riot.
		But the military unit that was put in charge of running prisons in Iraq, the 800th Military Police Brigade, was an Army Reserve outfit that was not trained to run prisons.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-06-14-military-police-shortage_x.htm (1198 words)

	Coalition Forces Help Train Police
		This police training school is a joint endeavor undertaken by Iraqi army, U.S. military and civilian contractors, set up to train new police recruits in weapons skills and maintenance, medical training, checkpoint tactics, and more.
		This sharing of knowledge and training is a step forward for both the Iraqi Police and army, helping each to work towards the common goal of security for their country.
		Each police station is normally assigned one Police Transition Team (PTT), comprised of U.S. military police and Iraqi Police Liaison Officers (IPLO), who are civilian police officers from the United States.
	www.blackanthem.com /News/Allies_20/Coalition_Forces_Help_Train_Police3692.shtml (865 words)

	Indian Motorcycle Memories - Military and Police
		In 1904, the New York City police department dismounted its horses and mounted the Indian motorcycle.
		This feature supposedly allowed police to keep up a chase while still being free to shoot (right handed) at a fleeing suspect.
		But the Indian Motocycle Company made a near fatal mistake: they committed their entire production to military business, leaving their dealers with nothing to sell for 18 months.
	www.wgby.org /localprograms/indian/pages/militaryandpolice.html (290 words)

	Local Military Police Company Has Web Site - Technology - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dec. 26--Finding out more about the Yuma soldiers serving in a locally based platoon of the Arizona National Guard's 855th Military Police Company is as easy as logging on to the Internet.
		The company serves as law enforcement for military personnel and can be called upon to enact in civilian emergencies.
		According to The Sun's archives, military officials have stated that the 855th Military Police Company, which is based in Sunnyslope, Ariz., is one of the most mobilized units in the Arizona National Guard for state and federal missions.
	www.redorbit.com /news/technology/780176/local_military_police_company_has_web_site/index.html?source=r_technology (595 words)

	MILITARY POLICE CORPS
		Green and yellow are the colors associated with the Military Police Corps.
		The crossed pistols are the symbol of the Military Police Corps mission: to uphold the law and to keep order.
		With the establishment of yellow for the Armor and the use of green for the insignia on the Armor flag, the colors for the Military Police were reversed.
	www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil /branches/Military%20Police.htm (426 words)

	Indian Motorcycle Memories - Military and Police
		In 1904, the New York City police department dismounted its horses and mounted the Indian motorcycle.
		This feature supposedly allowed police to keep up a chase while still being free to shoot (right handed) at a fleeing suspect.
		But the Indian Motocycle Company made a near fatal mistake: they committed their entire production to military business, leaving their dealers with nothing to sell for 18 months.
	wgby.org /localprograms/indian/pages/militaryandpolice.html (290 words)

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