text: FM 2-22.3 _________________________________________________________________________________
  • Second, current MP doctrine has the theater level EPW escort
  companies picking up detainees as far forward as the division forward
  collection points and bypassing the intervening collection points.
  5-97. An added benefit of placing the HCTs with maneuver units is that it
  allows them to conduct other HUMINT collection activities, such as the
  debriefing of local civilians and refugees concurrently with interrogation
  operations. HCTs are allocated to maneuver units based on—
  • The relative importance of that subordinate element’s operations to the
  unit’s overall scheme of maneuver.
  • The potential for that subordinate element to capture detainees,
  documents, and materiel or encounter civilians on the battlefield.
  • The criticality of information obtained from those sources to the
  success of the parent unit’s overall OPLANs.
  5-98. As the mission and situation change, the HCTs are redistributed. As
  MI assets, they should never be kept in reserve.
  5-99. During offensive and defensive operations, HCTs normally operate
  with maneuver brigades and battalions. HUMINT collectors with battalions
  or brigades should be equipped with vehicles and communications systems
  that are compatible with the systems organic to the supported unit.
  HUMINT collectors with brigades and battalions receive their collection
  priorities from the S2 of the supported unit. In stability and reconstruction
  operations, the HCTs normally operate in the AOs of battalion and brigade
  TFs.
  INTERROGATION FACILITY OPERATIONS
  5-100. Joint interrogation operations are operations conducted at higher
  echelons, usually at, and in coordination with, EPW and detainee internment
  facilities. The Joint Forces Commander (JFC) normally tasks the Army
  component commander to establish, secure, and maintain the EPW
  internment facility system. The corps may have the mission of establishing
  an interrogation facility when it is acting as the Army Forces (ARFOR) or
  Land Component Command (LCC) element.
  5-101. An echelon above corps (EAC) MP brigade normally operates the
  theater internment facility. The subordinate JFC with a J2 staff lead
  establishes a Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center as an activity within
  the theater internment facility. The MI Brigade Commander or other named
  SIO is normally designated as the JIDC commander. Army interrogation
  operations are normally carried out in an area of the MP-operated
  internment facility set aside for that use.
  5-102. The JIDC is normally administratively and operationally self-
  sufficient. A JIDC will function as part of an overall detainee command and
  control structure as outlined in FM 3-19.40 and/or by policy. Continuous
  coordination between the JIDC commander and internment facility
  commander is essential. The JIDC will—
  • Normally consist of facility headquarters, operations, analysis,
  editorial, interrogation, screening, and DOCEX elements.