Military Police

Spring 2013

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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504th Military Police Battalion OIF I area of operations the 709th Military Police Battalion, which were located at Tallil Airbase, to snap in behind them as they focused on the mounting security operations and the enemy prisoner of war mission north to Baghdad. One of the ¿rst 504th efforts to improve the security of units along MSR Tampa involved the installation of the "Sheriff 911" emergency frequency. The battalion established a theater-recognized communication system from the Kuwait-Iraq border, along MSR Tampa, to Tallil Airbase using a series of communication relay points. The military police communication sites not only provided an emergency frequency that was available to all coalition forces traveling along the MSR, but it also provided a capability for the military police battalion to conduct mission command operations. Furthermore, the communication sites enhanced the ability to provide a response force along the MSR and to provide security for key terrain. This communication system became the primary means of providing convoy assistance and medevac support for the duration of the war. As the 377th Theater Support Command assumed responsibility for the security of MSR Tampa from Kuwait to Baghdad and for forward movement support of the 1st Armored and 4th Infantry Divisions, the 220th Military Police Brigade directed the 504th to expand operations north of Tallil MILITARY POLICE . 19-13-1 Airbase to Baghdad. On 11 April, elements of the 504th moved 225 miles north of CSC Navistar to Shumali, Iraq, establishing a new CSC (Scania) at an abandoned gas station/rest stop adjacent to the MSR. Intense coordination and effort were required to ensure that the CSC Scania operation was secure and ef¿cient for moving crucial units and supplies forward in support of the offensive on Tikrit. However, once CSC Scania was established, it served as a secure location where critical convoys and units could stop, rest, refuel, and stage before moving on to ¿nal destinations. After operations at CSC Scania had been established, Company D, 1st Battalion, 152d Infantry Regiment, arrived to assume the security force mission. With the arrival of the 933d Military Police Company, the 504th assumed responsibility for convoy and route security along MSR Tampa from Tallil Airbase to CSC Scania, 50 miles south of Baghdad. In mid-April, the 170th Military Police Company arrived and moved to Baghdad to provide security for the newly established Of¿ce of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (later renamed the Coalition Provisional Authority [CPA]). By mid-May 2003, with the arrival of the 105th Military Police Company and the 333d Military Police Company, the battalion area of operations eventually expanded to Baghdad. The battalion conducted convoy security (focusing on logistical convoys, including contracted sustainment convoys and 9

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