Military Police contains information about military police functions in maneuver and mobility support, area security, law and order, internment/resettlement, and police intelligence operations.
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MILITARY POLICE . 19-15-1 10 The complementary feld of biometrics has been an Army responsibility ever since forward-thinking leaders assigned the Secretary of the Army as the DOD executive agent for biometrics in 2000—even before biometrics was common- place technology. 2 The early groundwork that was laid for biometric capabilities set the stage for a series of ad hoc warfghting organizations, beginning with the Biometrics Management Offce under Chief Information Offcer/G-6 oversight. The Biometrics Management Offce transitioned to the Biometrics Task Force under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans, and Training (G-3/5/7) in 2006. In 2010, the Biometrics Task Force became the Biometrics Identity Management Agency. When the Biometrics Iden- tity Management Agency moved to the Offce of the Provost Marshal General at the beginning of FY 13, it was renamed DFBA. The goal of the agency was to integrate forensic and biometric capabilities into one feld operating agency. The fusion of forensic and biometric skill sets in the feld supports the new military capability of identity operations, which denies anonymity to adversaries by matching them to their biological traces and biographical histories in a tactically useful timeframe. According to Lieutenant General David E. Quantock, the U.S. Army Provost Marshal General at the time of DFBA establishment, "You can't do anything today without leaving a biometric footprint." 3 DFBA is the enduring organization tasked to fully develop these forensic and biometric capabilities. While fngerprints have been used by law enforcement personnel for more than a century, it wasn't until the coun- ter improvised explosive device fght in the 2000s that they and other biometric modalities were considered valuable in a combat setting. 4, 5 But when the technology fnally arrived, it made an immediate impact. "Commanders in the feld have acknowledged two tactical game changers: constant sur- veillance from advances in manned and unmanned aircraft and the application of law enforcement forensic and biomet- ric techniques on the battlefeld," said Lieutenant General Michael Barbero, former director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization. "These capabilities remove violent extremists' greatest defense (anonymity), make them vulnerable to attribution, and enable action." 6 Speed and mobility have made modern biometrics pos- sible. Law enforcement agencies have long been able to take a subject's fngerprints and manually compare them to 10-print cards or forensic crime scene records; however, that was a time-consuming process that was limited by in- formation available in a given facility. The computerization A coalition force member collects biometric data during a security operation in Afghanistan.