Military police operations manual

These publications are pointed out throughout the manual, and a consolidated list is provided in the bibliography. This manual provides guidance that can be used by US Army service schools, students, sister services, and federal agencies. It is fully compatible with current joint, multinational, and interagency doctrine. A CI is a person who is interned during armed conflict or occupation if he is considered a security risk or if he needs protection because he committed an offense insurgent, criminal against the detaining power.

A DC is a civilian who left his home for various reasons. His movement and physical presence can hinder military operations. He most likely requires some degree of aid medicine, food, shelter, or clothing. A DC may not be native to the area local populace or to the country where he resides. A DC is a generic term that is further subdivided into the following categories:. A civilian whose status cannot be determined is treated as an OD.

This chapter discusses the internment process after a military tribunal adjudicates a civilian and determines that he should be interned.

Do not physically torture or use moral coercion against CIs. This does not prevent the use of minimum force necessary to enforce measures authorized or directed by AR Treat CIs considerately, without adverse distinction based on race, religion, political opinion, sex, or age.

A passage of lines is usually planned and coordinated by the headquarters directing the passage. A division's passage of lines is planned and coordinated by the corps headquarters. The detailed plans are made and coordinated between the divisions involved. Close coordination between the division and corps PMs is essential. An MP unit may be the unit involved in passing through the lines of another unit. Mobile patrols, TCPs, and checkpoint teams return stragglers to military control as part of their operations.

If a straggler is uninjured, an MP directs him to his parent unit or to a replacement unit as command policies dictate. The MP ensure that stragglers attempting to avoid return to their units are escorted back to their command as a minimum. The MP set up special posts for straggler control following NBC attacks or major - enemy breakthroughs that result in large numbers of lost, dazed, and confused military personnel.

Mobile MP teams operate between posts, and they also direct or collect stragglers. Straggler collection points may be needed if many stragglers are present in a combat theater. If allied forces are present in the theater, each nation establishes a collection point for its own personnel. MP teams are aware of each allied location and are prepared to assist allied soldiers in returning to their respective command.

The MP use available transportation assets to transfer stragglers from TCPs and checkpoints to a straggler collection point. At the collection point, they are screened and sorted for removal to a medical facility or returned to their units to reconstitute the tactical commander's combat force. The MP report information about stragglers with whom they come in contact. This - information is compiled by the MP headquarters and forwarded through appropriate channels to the higher command.

Information given by stragglers that is of immediate tactical value is reported without delay. Page 5 of 17 The MP expediting traffic on MSRs may encounter dislocated civilians that could hinder military traffic.

They may also deny the movement of civilians whose location, direction of movement, or actions may be a threat to themselves or to the combat operation.

The HN government is responsible for identifying routes for the safe movement of dislocated civilians out of an AO. If needed, the MP assist the civil-affairs unit and the HN in redirecting dislocated civilians to alternate routes established by the HN government. The US forces do not assume control of dislocated civilians unless requested to do so by the HN or unless operating in an environment with a hostile government.

When the senior US commander assumes responsibility, the MP coordinate with civil affairs to set up TCPs at critical points along the route to direct dislocated civilians to secondary roadways and areas not used by military forces. As required, MWD teams may be used as a show of force or as a deterrent to assist with uncooperative personnel. The MP conduct hasty and deliberate route reconnaissances to obtain information on a route and nearby terrain from which the enemy can influence troop movement.

MP patrols look for restricting terrain, effects of weather on the route, damage to the route, NBC contamination, and enemy presence or absence. When enemy activity is spotted, the MP report it, maintain surveillance, and develop the situation. To gather information for proposed traffic plans, they look at the type and number of available routes; and they check load classifications, route widths, obstructions, and restrictions.

The TRP contains specific measures to ensure the smooth and efficient use of the road network. It assigns military route numbers and names, the direction of travel, highway regulation points, and preplanned MP TCPs. Most importantly to the MP, it gives the route's control classification. The MP ensure that classified routes are used only by authorized traffic.

Vehicles traveling on roads too narrow for their passage or on roads unable to support their weight can obstruct the route. They also gather information on friendly and enemy activities and help stranded vehicles and crews. The MP also place temporary route signs to warn of hazards or to guide drivers unfamiliar with the route. Page 6 of 17 movement on MSRs. The MP perform the AS function to protect the force and to enhance the freedom of units to conduct their assigned missions.

The MP who provide AS play a key role in supporting forces in rear-area and sustainment operations. The MP are a response force that delays and defeats enemy attempts to disrupt or demoralize military operations in the AO. The MP's mobility makes it possible for them to detect the threat as they aggressively patrol the AO, MSRs, key terrain, and critical assets. The MP's organic communications enable them to advise the appropriate headquarters, bases, base clusters, and moving units of impending enemy activities.

MP countermeasures may include implementing vulnerability assessments, developing procedures to detect terrorist actions before they occur, hardening likely targets, and conducting offensive operations to destroy the enemy. The MP use checkpoints and roadblocks to control the movement of vehicles, personnel, and materiel and to prevent illegal actions that may aid the enemy.

The use of these control measures serves as a deterrence to terrorist activities, saboteurs, and other threats. However, at the same time, checkpoints and roadblocks expose the MP to these potential threats. To counter this fact, the MP may upgrade or harden vehicles and defensive positions. The MP provide combat power to protect the C 2 headquarters, equipment, and services essential for mission success.

The MP provide the battlefield commander with a light, mobile fighting force that can move, shoot, and communicate against any threat. As part of their AS mission, the MP serve as the eyes and ears of the battlefield commander by seeking out the enemy and reporting information obtained by recon patrols. The MP conduct area and zone reconnaissances, screening, surveillance, and countersurveillance to gain information to help guard against unexpected enemy attacks in the AO.

They become familiar with towns and other populated areas, ridgelines, woods, and other terrain features from which the enemy can influence movements along road networks. The MP pay close attention to areas near facilities designated critical by the commander.

Page 7 of 17 MP units take measures to support ADC before, during, and after hostile actions or natural and man-made disasters. Engineers, medical personnel, and Army aviators work closely to ensure quick relief operations. As with reconnaissance operations, the MP may use MWD explosive-and personnel-detection capabilities to augment all MP missions in rear-area and sustainment operations.

The MP are the base and base-cluster commanders' links for detection, early warning, and employment against enemy attacks. The information gathered is dispersed throughout the rear area to help apprise the commander of enemy activities near bases. Base defense is the cornerstone of rear-area security. The MP treat air bases like any other base or base cluster. A USAF air base may house the base-cluster commander, or it may be a cluster by itself The MP are responsible for the air base's external defense.

Its internal defense is primarily the responsibility of the Air Force's security forces. The security force provides in-depth defense for weapons, weapons systems, command centers, personnel, and other priority resources established by the base commander.

The security force is trained and equipped to detect, delay, and deny Level I and II threats. If a Level III threat is present, the security force is tasked with delaying actions; however, the HN, a sister service, or other support must be employed to defeat this threat. If the security force requires assistance to defeat a Level II threat, it may rely on MP response forces or another response force to assist in the defense. If available, the MP response force will react to the air-base defense, just as it would for any other base or base cluster within the MP's AO.

However, the key to successful MP employment depends on the critical exchange of information before and during the MP employment. Good communications, an understanding of the defense plan, and liaison operations are vital in preventing responding forces from entering a situation that could result in fratricide.

The MP are the base and base-cluster commanders' response force against enemy attacks in rear-area or sustainment operations. The MP gather information about the enemy while performing missions throughout the AO. This information provides commanders with enemy activity near bases.

When needed, the MP provide a mobile response force to respond to bases under attack and to destroy the enemy. A base commander's defense plan is the cornerstone for protecting rear-area and sustainment operations. The base commander is responsible for defeating all Level I threats. When this threat exceeds his capabilities, he requests MP support. The MP located near bases or patrolling or conducting AS operations consolidate their forces, respond as quickly as possible, and conduct combat operations to destroy the enemy.

To conduct these missions, the MP consolidate into squads or platoons to delay, defeat, or defend against the threat. See FMs and for more information on battle-handover operations. When the MP provide security around a critical site or asset, they usually provide a mobile security screen, taking advantage of its weapons and communications platforms. This standoff protection detects and defeats the threat before it can move within direct-fire range of the facilities.

The MP may be tasked to provide detail security to key facilities, assets, and personnel. Their employment maximizes mobility, lethality, and communications capabilities as a security screen.

The MP provide internal access-control points to critical facilities, and they act as a response force. When the critical CP relocates, the MP provide in-transit security. Other types of critical site security include ASPs; deep-water ports; petroleum, oil, and lubricants POL terminals and pipelines; trains and railways; and air bases.

The MP may provide convoy security for top-priority units transporting especially critical supplies to combat forces. MP assets should be employed primarily on aggressive patrolling, route, area, and zone reconnaissance measures that would create a safe and secure environment for all types of vehicular and unit movement. The MP and the CID provide protective services to designated key personnel by providing access control to restricted areas within CPs, providing in-transit security, or providing static security measures around the clock.

Page 9 of 17 US military prisoners. Entire units of enemy forces, separated and disorganized by the shock of intensive combat, may be captured. This can place a tremendous challenge on tactical forces and can significantly reduce the capturing unit's combat effectiveness. In this process, the MP coordinate with MI to collect information that may be used in current or future operations.

The MP safeguard and maintain accountability, protect, and provide humane treatment for all personnel under their care. Populace and resource control PRC denies adversaries or insurgents access to the general population and resources. The MP supports civil-affairs personnel and the tactical commander in planning and conducting PRC programs employed during all military operations. These programs may consist of curfews, movement restrictions, resettling dislocated civilians, licensing, ration control, regulation enforcement, amnesty programs, inspecting facilities, and guarding humanitarian-assistance distributions.

The MP also direct dislocated civilians to resettlement camps where they are cared for while NGOs work to coordinate their relocation. The MP's security capability, acceptability, and interface with the populace make them suitable as the primary forces of choice in these operations.

The MP detain, sustain, protect, and evacuate US military prisoners. Page 10 of 17 possible, soldiers awaiting trial remain in their units, unless reasonable grounds exist to believe that they will not appear at the trial, the pretrial hearing, or the investigation or that they will engage in serious criminal misconduct.

Under either of these two pretrial confinement instances, the commander must also reasonably believe that a less severe form of restraint such as conditions of liberty, restriction in lieu of apprehension, or apprehension are inadequate. When these circumstances exist and other legal requirements are met, US military personnel may be placed in pretrial confinement under the MP's direct control.

Convicted military prisoners are moved as soon as possible to confinement facilities outside of the AO. No member of the US armed forces may be placed in confinement in immediate association with an EPW or other foreign nationals who are not members of the US armed forces. A confinement facility is maintained within the TO only if distance or the lack of transportation requires such a facility.

By coordinating and maintaining liaison with other DOD, HN, joint, and multinational agencies, the MP at all levels coordinate actions to remove conditions that may promote crime or that have the potential to affect the combat force.

Crime-prevention measures and selective enforcement measures are also performed as part of other functions. Law-enforcement operations assist the battlefield commander in preserving his force. The MP dedicate assets to conduct law-enforcement operations based on the commander's needs.

This will allow the PM to employ limited MP assets to perform other functions. Law-enforcement operations include responding to civil disturbances, conducting raids, investigating traffic accidents, conducting vehicle searches, supporting the commander's force-protection program, and providing support to HN and civil-enforcement agencies. The Army conducts counterdrug-support operations that generally fall within several DOD counterdrug-mission categories.

The MP support the Army's role rather than directly participating in civil law-enforcement activities such as searches, seizures, and arrests. Page 11 of 17 When tasked, the MP provide training to law-enforcement agencies in common soldier skills, physical security, and tactical planning and operations. In multinational operations, the MP may assist with the creation of multinational police units.

Circumstances that may support the establishment of these police forces include existing or negotiated terms of international agreements or security-assistance programs, a multinational operational agreement, or appropriate military directives. The MP can provide the initial mentoring to these forces and provide temporary, emergency law-enforcement capabilities until the foreign military or civilian police forces are functional see FM The MP investigate offenses against US forces or property committed by persons subject to military law.

Investigations against major incidents involving wrongful death, serious bodily injury, and war crimes are referred to special agents of the USACIDC. The USACIDC special agents are authorized to investigate any alleged criminal conduct in which there is an Army interest unless prohibited by law or higher authority. Other investigations such as those based on international treaties, SOFAs, and joint investigations with the HN may be undertaken if requested by the supported commander in support of the overall Army mission.

Page 12 of 17 traffic of controlled substances and other contraband through Army channels. MP support to customs operations are normally performed by specially trained MP customs teams. The MP report violations of customs laws, regulations, inspections, and investigative results to the installation's PM, the supported commander, and affected units. As with other functions, MWD teams may be employed in support of customs operations for the detection of explosives or narcotics.

Their mission supported the air evacuation of foreign-national civilians and the redeployment of some of the initial-entry US forces. The PIO function supports, enhances, and contributes to the commander's protection program, situational awareness, and battlefield visualization by portraying relevant threat information that may affect his operational and tactical environments. This threat information—whether it is police, criminal, or combat information—is gathered while conducting MP functions.

These programs include-. As such, each one must determine the best way to employ the available staff resources to monitor the execution of the PIO function within his command. The IPB is a systematic, continuous process for analyzing the threat and environment in a specific geographic area. It is designed to support staff estimates and military decision making. This evaluation process focuses on the general capabilities of each force until COAs are developed later in the IPB process.

This environmental assessment always includes an examination of terrain and weather, but it may also include discussions of characteristics of geography and infrastructure and their effects on friendly and threat operations. When operating against a new or less known threat, he may need to develop his intelligence databases and threat models concurrently. Given what the threat normally prefers to do and the effects of the specific environment in which he is operating, his likely objectives and the COAs available to him are determined.

Every Army commander and staff member must understand and apply the IPB process during the staff planning process. The MP on the battlefield are no exception.

Criminal trends may have an impact on the tactical scenario, and the PIAP is a method used to consider this threat and its impact on friendly forces. In the passive mode, PIO are not a stand-alone function; as such, they cannot be separated from other MP functions.

If the MP receive, observe, or encounter information police, criminal, or combat while performing these functions, they will immediately submit a report to relay information up the chain of command. While performing the task, two civilians approached the MP team informing them of criminal activity in the neighborhood.

During the interview, the MP team prepared a sketch of a house and surrounding areas. The team also obtained information describing the criminals and their weapons.. Two days later, a unit from the 10th Mountain Division raided the house, capturing weapons, ammunition, and equipment.

PIO—Passive Mode The MP team received the information while conducting a TCP and submitted it through the appropriate chain of command, which resulted in an action taken. Page 16 of 17 regardless of whether it may be police, criminal, or combat information. The MP perform the PIO function in the active mode and across the full spectrum of military operations when directed by higher headquarters.

Part of his collection strategy is to select the best collectors available to cover each intelligence requirement. Once the analysis is completed and the appropriate function selected, the PM will then task subdrdinate units with the collection mission. Once the mission is completed, the PM may receive another collection tasking or continue with previous MP tasks.

Once the mission is completed, the MP may receive another collection tasking or continue with previous MP tasks see Figure below.

Page 17 of 17 MP may employ any of the other four functions to satisfy the PI requirement Figure This support includes recruitment, organization, supply, equipment, training, servicing, mobilizing, demobilizing, administration, and maintenance functions. When appropriate, the ASCC delegates the authority for support tasks to a single subordinate Army headquarters. The TSC is the senior Army support organization in a theater. Unity of command is the critical element that the TSC brings to the fight.

Page 2 of 7 support, engineer support, religious support, finance support, and personnel and administrative services. Units and commands requiring support coordinate with the TSC support-operations staff to secure their initial support, to reestablish support, or to resolve support problems. These supply corridors include ports, inland waterways, railways, pipelines, airfields, MSRs, and MSR critical points. They play an important role in securing rear areas by performing combat operations against the threat.

MP brigade commander works directly for the EAC commander, the battalion commander works for the brigade commander, and the company commander works for the battalion commander. Any conflict in mission priorities is resolved through MP C 2 channels.

The accepted rule of thumb is 20 security personnel soldiers, police, para-militaries and auxiliaries for every people in the area of operation.

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