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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9 MILITARY POLICE . 19-15-1 By Mr. Donald G. Salo and Colonel Christopher J. Wilson S omewhere in Afghanistan, an insurgent walks the streets. He carries no identifcation. And if anyone asks his name, he'll make one up. In the past, he has built bombs and taken potshots at U.S. troops but no one would ever know just by looking at him. He does his work comfortably hidden in plain sight among the population, safe in his anonymity—until he comes across a random coalition patrol carrying a biometric kit. The insurgent queues up with other Afghans on the street. When it's his turn to be tested, he places his fnger on a mobile fngerprint reader and then widens his eyes for iris imaging. In minutes, coali- tion troops identify the insurgent as someone of interest. His fngerprints match samples previously obtained from known insurgent sites and the forensic exploitation of improvised explosive device fragments. The man is detained and re- moved from the fght. This hypothetical vignette repeatedly took place during U.S. combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2014, and hundreds of our Nation's deadliest enemies have been removed from the battlefeld. Now, through the efforts of the newest component of the Military Police Corps—the Defense Fo- rensics and Biometrics Agency (DFBA)—that same capability is being used to enhance force protection abroad and to protect our borders at home. New Component With a Alongside the U.S. Army Criminal Investi- gation Command (commonly known as CID) and the U.S. Army Corrections Command, DFBA serves as a feld operating agency within the Offce of the Provost Marshal Gen- eral. 1 While DFBA is an Army organization, it is responsible for the executive management of forensics and biometrics across the entire Department of Defense (DOD). Responsibili- ties include the CID Defense Forensic Science Center, which is home to the central DOD fo- rensic laboratory and several expeditionary forensic teams, and the Biometrics Identity Management Activity, which operates the Automated Biometric Identifcation System (ABIS) (the DOD authoritative biometric da- tabase). Although DFBA has only been in opera- tion since fscal year (FY) 2013, its mission extends back considerably farther. For law enforcement purposes, military forensics be- gan during World War II. From its inception, forensics has been a military police mission. A Soldier uses a fngerprint reader as part of a DOD biometric access pilot program. By Mr. Donald G. Salo and Colonel Christopher J. Wilson