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SPRING 2015

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27 MILITARY POLICE . 19-15-1 By Captain Daniel E. McCarey T he highest-ranking military police offcers from each of the 28 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations come together annually with representatives from other countries to discuss the future of military police within NATO. 1 The goals of this recurring meeting are to increase interoperability and build rapport among member nations. The most recent conference was held 22–26 Sep- tember 2014 in Berlin, Germany. This conference featured the largest number of participants ever; in addition to the representatives from the various NATO organizations, 61 individuals from 30 nations were also in attendance. Given the increase in NATO activity around the world during the past several months, this is not surprising. The conference consisted of a variety of hosts and guest speakers who shared their knowledge with senior partici- pants, including the provost marshal, Allied Command Op- erations, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe; the commander of the European Gendarmerie Force; and the commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. The direc- tor of the NATO Military Police Centre of Excellence and a representative from the NATO Stability Policing Centre of Excellence also participated in the conference. The conference is chaired by a representative from one nation for 2 years, and then chairmanship is transferred to a representative from another volunteering nation for the next 2 years. This meeting marked the end of the Canadian chairmanship. Colonel Timothy Grubb, outgoing Canadian chairman, handed over chairmanship to Brigadier General Udo Schnittker, provost marshal of the German army, who, in turn, named Colonel Heiko Thieser, from the German Military Police Headquarters, as the chair of the NATO Mil- itary Police Panel for the next 2 years. Because the NATO Military Police Chiefs' Conference tasked the Military Police Panel with a plethora of projects to accomplish before next year's conference, Colonel Thieser and his team will be very busy. One of the Military Police Panel projects involves the re - vision of the NATO military police cornerstone document— NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 2296/Allied Joint Publication (AJP) 3.2.3.3, Allied Joint Doctrine for Military Police. 2 This document describes the primary roles and characteristics of military police in support of the joint and multinational campaign at the operational level. The revision of this document will be accomplished by a multina- tional military police writing team over the next 12 months; however, because the language must be approved by the legal system of each country, the ratifcation process could take an additional 24 months. Another project with which the NATO Military Police Panel was tasked is the creation of a writing team to examine common military police defnitions for use in NATO publica- tions. Allied Administrative Publication (AAP)-06, NATO Glossary of and Defnitions (English and French), serves as the offcial glossary of terms and defnitions agreed upon, and used by, all NATO member nations. 3 However, AAP-06 noticeably lacks military police defnitions. In fact, it does not contain an entry for military police . . . yet. This is the task of the NATO military police terminology writing team, which met for the frst time in February 2015. With many of the member countries belonging to gendarmerie/ marechaussee type forces (which have an understanding of Brigadier General Schnittker (left) takes over chairmanship of the NATO Military Police Chiefs' Conference from Colonel Grubb.

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