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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32 MILITARY POLICE . 19-14-2 Battalion. While the group's battalions and detachments were charged with ensuring that their personnel attend protective services training so that they would be prepared to augment the Protective Services Battalion when required, their missions, unit designs, and equipment did not support this directive as a primary MET—only as a supporting task. Through the process of clarifying roles among battalions, detachments, and groups, gaps between training doctrine and operations were also identifed. The most apparent gap was the absence of a management or supervisory task for an economic crime program at the battalion and detachment levels. Although training doctrine addresses individual tasks that support the economic crime program, it does not include leader tasks. Furthermore, the former battalion MET 6, "Conduct Logistics Security Operations," was actually a supporting individual and collective task for the economic crime program at the battalion and detachment levels. Consequently, MET 6 was eliminated and the task was more accurately placed within the economic crime arena. Another task that is not specifcally identifed within doctrine, but is alluded to in some specifc training tasks, involves the coordination and conduct of a force protection/ antiterrorism program. Battalion and detachment level individual and collective tasks that incorporate personnel security vulnerability assessments; hostage negotiations; and newly positioned, protective-service activities are nested within this program. The elimination of former battalion METs 4 and 6 and the repositioning of those tasks led to a major change in the creation of nonstandard METs at the battalion and detachment levels. Former battalion MET 3 and detachment MET 2, "Conduct Criminal Investigations," incorporated all investigative and supporting tasks. The size and breadth of the single MET and the expected profciencies warranted further examination. Battalion level investigative and supporting tasks could be easily categorized into one of two areas. The frst area, new MET 3, "Conduct Criminal Investigations," includes all collective tasks that support detachment execution of investigations; the second, new MET 4, "Conduct Criminal Investigative Support Operations," incorporates supporting tasks that do not involve the conduct of investigations. At the detachment level, the new battalion MET 3 was further divided into basic investigative tasks that apply to all investigations, detachment MET 2, "Conduct Criminal Investigation Operations," and specifc investigative programs, detachment MET 3, "Conduct Investigative Program Operations." Within each detachment level MET, we identifed high-payoff and key leader tasks to assist in the selection of training tasks with the most signifcant unit impact. The identifcation of new METs at the battalion and detachment levels helped with the organization of roles, responsibilities, and training. The separation of investigation and support responsibilities between levels enables better evaluation of training focus and profciency. CID battalion- and detachment-exclusive missions and authorizations the adoption of standardized, nontraditional, hybrid CID battalion and detachment METLs using the Army training management system. By applying the operations process, the 22d Military Police Battalion identifed shortfalls between training doctrine and the operational requirements outlined in regulations, concepts of operations, and standard operating procedures. Some of the individual and collective task performance measures contained in existing doctrine must be refned to better capture training objectives that operations. The most signifcant METL changes are the classifcation and reorganization of METs and the individual and collective tasks within the METs to more accurately the CID operational capability set forth by our mission and unit design. Updating CID unit METLs ultimately enables commanders and their units to prioritize tasks, maximize the use of fnite time, and negate training risks to improve overall investigations and support to our communities and our Army at home or during deployment. Endnotes: 1 ADRP 7-0, Training Units and Developing Leaders, 23 August 2012. 2 METs are derived from a number of sources, most of which are specifcally directed by the list of Army tactical tasks (ARTs) contained in Field Manual (FM) 7-15, The Universal Task List, 27 February 2009. AR 10-87, Service , 4 September 2007. CID Regulation 195-1, Procedures, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, 1 January 2001. Colonel Dolata Group, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. He holds a bachelor's degree in justice studies and degrees in the University of Phoenix; Maxwell Air Force and of the 6th Military Police Group. He holds a bachelor's degree in police science Kentucky University degree in services Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. Major Conkey is the executive offcer of the 22d Military Police Battalion, Joint Base Lewis-McChord. She holds a bachelor's degree Greenville, South in business and organizational security University and social University, New York City, New York.