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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Chief, Military Police Corps Regiment, and Commandant, U.S. Army Military Police School Brigadier General Mark S. Inch Forging Military Police From 2013 to 2020 I n September 2012, senior leaders of the Military Police Corps Regiment gathered to address the strategic way ahead. The conference centered on the introduction of the Military Police Force 2020 Strategic Plan (STRATPLAN)1—a document resulting from a cooperative effort among senior military police leaders from the U.S. Army Of¿ce of the Provost Marshal General; the U.S. Army Military Police School (USAMPS); the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (commonly referred to as CID); the U.S. Army Corrections Command; the Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD); and the ¿eld. The STRATPLAN—which was signed under the authority of Major General David E. Quantock, U.S. Army Provost Marshal General—signals the need to "fundamentally change how we do business."2 It sets the stage for a clear understanding of the strategic environment and provides a framework to be used to forge the future. But unless the leaders of our major military police force organizations use and operationalize the STRATPLAN, it will be nothing more than a coffee-table decoration. The STRATPLAN presents a clear military police force mission statement: "Provide professional policing, investigations, corrections, and security [and mobility] support across the full range of military operations in order to enable protection and promote the rule of law."3 And the vision statement indicates that we intend to be "recognized as policing, investigations, and corrections professionals who enable the Army's decisive action in uni¿ed land operations . . ."4 In addition, the STRATPLAN outlines four core competencies—soldiering, policing, investigations, and corrections. This means that the ¿ve doctrinal military police battle¿eld functions will need to be adjusted to the three complementary disciplines of security and mobility support, police operations, and detention operations. The Military Police Regimental Strategy (commonly referred to as the box top) is a visual tool that communicates how the military police force develops and provides critical capabilities to the Joint Force in support of our national objectives. (See ¿gure.) In the featured article of this issue of Military Police ("Move That Military Police Battalion Forward Now: The Role of the 504th Military Police Battalion in OIF I," page 7), Colonel Thomas H. Tatum, Provost Marshal, U.S. Army Forces Command, demonstrates evidence of the immediate Joint Force demand for these critical capabilities during Phase III operations. There are six goals of the Military Police Force 2020 STRATPLAN. These goals—and the way in which major military police force organizations use the STRATPLAN to plan, organize, and forge the future—are critical. The STRATPLAN goals are5 — ● Goal 1. Enhance professional standards across the military police. ● Goal 2. Assess and implement a preventive policing strategy to protect the force at home and abroad. ● Goal 3. Assure partner interoperability. ● Goal 4. Develop adaptive military police leaders. ● Goal 5. Maximize versatility of military police capabilities. ● Goal 6. Implement knowledge management practices and technologies to assure that knowledge is identi¿ed, captured, and shared. USAMPS personnel performed a cross-walk between the USAMPS Campaign Plan and the Military Police Force 2020 STRATPLAN. We identi¿ed and reviewed those goals and objectives that are best addressed within the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) domains. For example, Goal 1, Objective 1.3 of the USAMPS Campaign Plan (Analyze and implement accreditation) corresponds to Goal 1 of the Military Police Force 2010 STRATPLAN. And I am pleased to announce that, on 17 January 2013, USAMPS achieved a 3-year reaccreditation from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation, which had previously accredited the U.S. Army Civilian Police Academy, the Special Victims Unit Investigations Course, and the USAMPS Staff and Faculty Certi¿cation Course. All items were found to be complete and in full compliance. The American Correctional Association has also accredited the Military Occupational Specialty 31E Advanced Individual Training Course. And in May 2013, USAMPS will undergo a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command accreditation audit. 2 MILITARY POLICE . 19-13-1