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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MILITARY POLICE . 19-14-2 27 By Major Leviticus M. Huff W hen I frst enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2003, I knew that I wanted to learn about the feld of corrections; however, my military career did not initially lead me down that path. In the fall of 2012, while deployed to Afghanistan, I applied for an American Correctional Association (ACA) Training With Industry internship because I still wanted to acquire the corrections skill set while serving. In January 2013, I learned that I had been accepted as an intern and that I would have that opportunity. Through my utilization tour and follow-on assignments, I will garner the experience needed to meet the challenging demands placed on corrections professionals. ACA is a professional association composed of individuals, agencies, and organizations involved in all facets of the corrections feld, including community corrections, jails, adult and juvenile services, and probation and parole. ACA was founded as the National Prison Association in 1870; the name was changed at the 1954 annual Congress of Corrections in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the evolving philosophy regarding the feld of corrections and its increasingly important role in society. Today, ACA is considered the worldwide authority on correctional policy and standards, disseminating the latest information and advances to members, policy makers, departments of correction, and individual correctional workers. Upon my arrival at ACA in June 2013, I served as a professional development specialist in the Professional Development Department—one of seven departments within the association. The Professional Development Department is responsible for aiding corrections personnel in their professional development and providing a variety of skills to improve the planning, execution, and evaluation of correctional programs. The department also manages the Correctional Certifcation Program—a program that covers the certifcation of corrections professionals as— y Correctional executives. y Correctional managers. y Correctional supervisors. y Correctional offcers. In addition, ACA offers online training through the Corrections Online Training Collaborative. This program offers groups and individuals an opportunity to purchase online training programs that cover a wide variety of correctional topics, including inmate management, security and special needs, corrections professionalism, and issues in the correctional workplace. My time in the Professional Development Department afforded me the opportunity to take and pass the certifed correctional manager's examination and the ACA auditor's examination. Over the years, ACA has certifed thousands of corrections professionals through these programs. In October 2013, I transferred from the Professional Development Department to the Standards and Accreditation Department, where I now work as a standards and accreditation specialist. The time I've spent in this department has been most rewarding; I have had the opportunity to become familiar with the 500-plus adult correctional institution standards, which are the same standards followed by the fve U.S. Army correctional facilities (the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, Fort Leavenworth; the Northwestern Joint Regional Correctional Facility, Fort Lewis, Washington; the U.S. Army Corrections Facility–Europe, Coleman Barracks, Mannheim, Germany; and the U.S. Army Corrections Facility–Korea, Camp Humphreys, Korea). I am currently assisting four states (Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas) through the accreditation process by managing their contracts, auditor schedules, visiting-committee reports, and conference accreditation panel hearings. Thus far, I have helped more than 50 facilities within these states get their adult correctional institutions, adult local detention facilities, administration of correctional agencies, and correctional training academies accredited or reaccredited. I have also participated in multiple auditor training sessions. ACA contracts with more than 400 auditors who participate in monthly ACA Web-based seminars. These training seminars provide auditors with opportunities to review a host of basic skills (report writing, interviewing, health care auditing) needed to be a profcient auditor. In addition, auditor training sessions are offered at ACA conferences and other corrections-related conferences. I have attended two ACA conferences—the Congress of Corrections Conference, held in Washington, D.C., in August 2013 and the Winter Conference, held in Tampa, Florida, Internship at the American Correctional Association (continued on page 29)