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  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
  • 1 per 2–5 military • Conducts the command and control of battalion
  police company operations for 2–5 military police companies and
  • 1 per two DC other assigned or attached elements to execute
  police operations, detention operations, and security
  camps under
  and mobility support.
  United States
  Army control or • Coordinates with the headquarters and headquarters
  10,000 DC 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
  Military police battalion 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.
  • 1 per TDF (4,000 • Conducts command and control of operations for
  detainees) assigned and attached units.
  • 1 per strategic • Provides administrative, field feeding, clothing,
  detention facility 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
  Military police detention detainees or U.S. military prisoners.
  battalion
  • 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.