Putting the Police Back into the Military Police

Abstract

Terrorism, insurgency, and crime continue to rise as non-state threats to world-wide stability and thus the importance of establishing an effective local police force in stability operations has become widely accepted. However, the U.S. Government (USG) lacks the institutional capacity to develop police abroad apart from using the U.S. military during contingencies. The USG does not have an expeditionary stability police force similar to our international partners and our military, in spite of its many capabilities, will always be the second-best solution. To solve this problem, this paper proposes that the Military Police seek to become a more technically professional police organization in support of USG operational and strategic aims. 15.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 23, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553025

Entities

People

  • Robert Dillon

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Rights
  • Crime
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Police
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Police
  • Stability Operations
  • Students
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies