MILITARY POLICE
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By Ms. Kathleen A. Rich
B
ecause U.S. military branches are heavily engaged
throughout the world, the ability to rapidly share
information is becoming increasingly important.
The effcient collection, dissemination, and sharing of
observations, insights, lessons, and best practices among
operating and generating forces greatly enhance the success
of the Army by providing valuable data to those who need it
most. Consequently, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine
Command (TRADOC) has specifed that "Soldiers will need
a single online portal where digital learning resources can
be easily found in two, but not more than three clicks."
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To address the TRADOC requirement, the Military Police
(MP) Warfghter's Forum (WfF) Cell, Quality Assurance
Offce (QAO), U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center of
Excellence (MSCoE)—with guidance from the U.S. Army
Military Police School (USAMPS)—established the U.S.
Army Military Police Professional Resource Center Web
site, which can be accessed by going to the USAMPS Web
site at , rolling over
the WfF & Lessons Learned menu item, and then clicking on
the MP Resource Center (CAC Email Cert Req) drop-down
box. Access to the site requires a common access card (CAC)
log-in.
The Military Police Professional Resource Center online
portal promotes the sharing and collaboration of information
and ideas to arrive at solutions to common problems across
the Regiment. It serves as an exclusive one-stop shop and
eliminates the need for military police Soldiers to spend
valuable time searching elsewhere for resources.
The goals of the Military Police Professional Resource
Center Web Site are to—
y Improve interface capabilities.
y Provide a seamless mixture of knowledge sharing by
merging and leveraging current, collaboration-based
technology platforms for military police communities
worldwide.
The accomplishment of these goals will contribute to a
knowledge-enabled force.
The Military Police Professional Resource Center Web
site, which supports the Army WfF, provides a platform for
posting and sharing valuable military police information,
including information obtained during scheduled military
police unit collections and from military police staff returning
from deployments or combat training center exercises. The
Web site—featuring access for mentors and facilitators,
peer-based interactions, a knowledge content repository,
lessons learned, and an avenue for submitting requests
for information (RFIs)—incorporates several unique, user-
friendly tools.
Advanced Search Box
The most signifcant feature of the Military Police
Professional Resource Center Web Site is the Advanced
Search Box, which fully leverages the search potential of
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 ®. This search feature stands out
in several ways:
y It is capable of integrated doctrine, organization, training,
materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and
facilities taxonomy search refnement.
y It contains a metadata-driven refnement panel.
y It is capable of searching all read-enabled databases across
the Defense Information System Agency.
y The search relevance improves with social behavior;
that is, the clicking actions of search queries affect how
documents are ranked.
Information is continually added to the expandable,
searchable database; therefore, the search feature is a
constant work in progress.
MP Courses
The titles of military police courses are displayed in
a scrollable column. Each entry is directly linked to a
corresponding Web site. (In addition, course dates are
available by clicking on the ATRRS: Army Training
Requirements and Resources System link near the bottom of
the column to the far right.)
MP Units
The titles of military police units are displayed in
a scrollable column. Each unit title is linked to the
corresponding Web site or Facebook® page.
RFIs
The RFIs link provides Soldiers with a direct means of
submitting RFIs, which are routed through the MSCoE and
are usually addressed within one business day.
CALL
The Military Police Professional Resource Center Web
site contains a link to the Web site for CALL (Center for
Army Lessons Learned), which is an agent for change
focused on the Army-wide planning, collection, analysis,