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DFBA is a military police-heavy organization. The cur-
rent director—a career member of the Senior Executive Ser-
vice—is a retired military police colonel. The deputy director
is an active duty military police colonel. Several of the staff
members are feld grade military police offcers, and several
others are retired or former military police or veterans of
other Army branches or other Services.
The Military Police Corps is well suited to the forensic
and biometric missions, with ready applications across the
many roles flled by military police. "Biometrics and foren-
sics are connective tissue between all of it," said Lieutenant
General Quantock.
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CID; the Defense Forensic Science Cen-
ter; and unit level, sensitive-site exploitation experts know
how to examine scenes and preserve evidence. Corrections
specialists (Military Occupational Specialty 31E personnel)
are familiar with biometrically enrolling detainees. Military
police across the Army perform access control and other du-
ties centered around verifying the identities of individuals.
With this experience, the Military Police Corps already has
the knowledge needed to apply the felds of forensics and
biometrics across the DOD.
DFBA is also working closely with U.S. Army Training
and Doctrine Command centers of excellence and schools—
including the U.S. Army Military Police School—to inte-
grate forensic and biometric training into curricula, Army
and joint doctrinal publications, and U.S. Army Forces Com-
mand counter improvised explosive device integration cells.
For example, Army Techniques Publication (ATP) 2-22.85,
Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Proce-
dures for in Support of
Operations, provides a standardized, multi-Service frame-
work for planning, integrating, and employing biometric
data collection efforts by tactical units conducting military
operations.
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It also explains the value of accurate data collec-
tion to data collectors and small-unit leaders and describes
the operational impact of biometrics.
DFBA constitutes an additional asset in ongoing Mili-
tary Police Corps relationships with other U.S. law enforce-
ment agencies. Interagency agreements allow partners to
share data and query databases that belong to each other.
As mentioned in the Fall 2013 issue of Military Police, the
U.S. Border Patrol serves as a host to military police fellows
through the Interagency Fellowship Program and it biomet-
rically enrolls fellowship participants.
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The Border Patrol,
in turn, has access to DOD databases, which facilitates the
identifcation of individuals with nefarious histories who are
attempting to enter the United States. The Border Patrol
is just one example of the many DFBA partners across the
U.S. Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security
who cooperate to protect our country's borders.
Interagency relationships are in statistics re-
garding biometric queries and submissions to the ABIS.
During the past 5 years, the number of ABIS submissions
from interagency partners has increased from just a few to
more than a third of all annual submissions. Consequently,
ABIS is expected to grow proportionately more valuable to
U.S. government departments outside of DOD.
Due to the ability of partners to access DOD records,
biometric data continues to have an impact. Lieutenant
General Quantock stated, "While I was [in Iraq], we took in
88,000 detainees. . . . Most are free today." But biometric re-
cords (fngerprints and, in many cases, voice and iris scans)
for those detainees are still on fle.
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This has enabled U.S.
immigration authorities to identify individuals connected to
past criminal or terrorist activities before they cross the bor-
der into our country. One such case involved an Iraqi man
who was biometrically enrolled by coalition forces in 2008
after his involvement in insurgent activity, theft, kidnap-
ping, and murder. He subsequently applied for admission to
the United States under the Department of State Refugee
Admission Program, but was identifed through biometric
records. Another Iraqi who was previously a host nation em-
ployee of coalition forces was placed on a criminal biometric
watch list in 2013 and identifed by U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security,
which is an alternate pipeline for admission to the United
States. Stories like these are not limited to people from high-
profle countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but extend
to individuals from Kosovo, El Salvador, and other countries
around the world where U.S. military and law enforcement
agencies cooperate with host nation governments.
Real Technology With a Real Impact
Long restricted to science fction, biometrics is now a real
tool that is making a real impact on DOD missions. In con-
junction with the forensic exploitation of sensitive sites and
captured materiel, U.S. forces have used biometric capabili-
ties to identify terrorists, recapture escapees, and prevent
innumerable hostile acts. Other applications of this reliable
technology can be found throughout DOD, and the Army
Military Police Branch is leading the way.
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