| Title: | Military Police Operations [Includes Alternate Version] |
| Date: | March 22, 2001 |
| Origin: | United States. Army. Training and Doctrine Command |
| Document type: | Field Manual |
| Document number: | 3-19.1 |
| Non-Classified | Annotated Copy |
| Pages: | 255 p. |
| Location of original: | American Civil Liberties Union |
| Releasing agency: | United States. Army |
| ACLU notes: | Manual laying foundations for military police operations; its various functions. "The MP are tasked with coordinating shelter, protection, accountability, and sustainment for EPWs/CIs [enemy prisoners of war/civilian internees]" (DODDOA-6553). "In any conflict involving US forces, safe and humane treatment of EPWs/CIs is required by international law." "A properly configured modular MP (I/R) battalion [Military Police Internment & Resettlement] can support, safeguard, account for, guard and provide humane treatment for up to 4,000 EPWs/CIs; 8,000 dislocated civilians; or 1,500 US military prisoners." (DODDOA-6554). |
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| Language: | English |
| Collection: | The Torture Archive |
| Rights: | All information displayed in this record, including any PDF image, is public. |
| Repository: | National Security Archive |
| Date available: | 2010-07-20 |