FM-3-81 Maneuver Enhancement Brigade Download

Chapter 2 2-16 FM 3-81 09 November 2021 2-30. Table 2-2 provides an overview of military police capabilities at the battalion level and below that may be task-organized to the MEB. For additional information on military police operations, see FM 3-39. Table 2-2. Military police mission planning and capabilities Organization Mission Planning Capabilities Military police battalion • 1 per 2–5 military police company • 1 per two DC camps under United States Army control or 10,000 DC • Conducts the command and control of battalion operations for 2–5 military police companies and other assigned or attached elements to execute police operations, detention operations, and security and mobility support. • Coordinates with the headquarters and headquarters detachment, military police brigade, host-nation military organizations, and the civil police authorities concerning host-nation support. • Conducts vulnerability assessments of critical facilities. • Supervises the staff for collection and evacuation of detainees and/or dislocated civilians. • Prepares the command and control of subordinate elements that support counterdrug operations pursuant to controlling law and within the provisions of DOD policy. • Supervises the selection, organization, training, equipment, and employment of host-nation military and paramilitary police units. • Provides military police investigative support within the battalion AOs. • Provides protective service details for designated high-risk personnel when they are properly trained or supervised by a CID special agent. Military police detention battalion • 1 per TDF (4,000 detainees) • 1 per strategic detention facility • Conducts command and control of operations for assigned and attached units. • Provides administrative, field feeding, clothing, religious, and recreational support to detainees. When organized to support U.S. military prisoners or detainees, field feeding is limited to the procurement or distribution of food rations, equipment, and supervision of U.S. military prisoners or detainees in the preparation of meals. • Coordinates and supervises work projects for detainees or U.S. military prisoners. • Provides limited HSS and FHP services during detainee operations and supervising qualified personnel providing medical care and operational public health. • Screens/inspects incoming and outgoing detainee mail for contraband items. • Maintains organic equipment in the headquarters and headquarters company and assigned military police detention companies and detention camp liaison detachments.