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  training and advising local police and establishing police stationing operations for local law enforcement
  forces. Military police forces may also assist in training and advising corrections officers as part of
  capacity-building activities. As the police program matures, formal police training centers and academies
  foster professional police forces.
  1-98. Commanders and staffs at all levels during preplanning efforts must carefully analyze and assess the
  situation from a rule of law perspective. Either as the result of increased looting or an escalation of
  incidents caused by a simple disregard for the law, the military police may serve as the initial force to assist
  in stabilizing a situation. In the meantime, planning and coordination efforts must develop with the DOS to
  deploy civilian experts to the operational area. Specific law enforcement operations and activities that
  support stability tasks may include:
  * Conducting police station operations.
  * Conducting criminal investigations.
  * Conducting traffic enforcement operations.
  * Employing forensic capabilities.
  * Conducting police engagement.
  * Conducting temporary detention of personnel.
  * Providing protective services for selected individuals and high-risk personnel security.
  * Providing investigative support.
  * Employing biometric capabilities.
  * Conducting critical site security.
  * Providing customs support.
  * Restoring and maintaining order.
  * Conducting border control, security, and freedom of movement operations.
  * Restoring public safety, order, and confidence.
  * Performing host-nation police training and support operations.
  * Providing support to civil law enforcement.
  Legal System
  1-99. When criminal justice system reform, specifically the legal system, has broken down within a
  society, staff judge advocates and others may initially support efforts to assist in recruiting, training, and
  equipping the host nation’s legal system. Prior to deployment should coordinate and formulate basic,
  flexible rule of law plans that participants can tailor to the particular circumstances of the deployment.
  These participants can include judge advocates, civil affairs personnel, military police, and others who
  anticipate a rule of law activity that contemplates criminal justice system reform activities. Once deployed,
  information and time will likely be in short supply. Criminal justice system reform practices involving the
  practice of law include, but are not limited to—
  * Evaluating and assisting in developing transitional decrees, codes, ordinances, courts, and other
  measures intended to bring immediate order to areas in which the host nation’s legal system is
  impaired or nonfunctioning.
  * Evaluating host-nation law, legal traditions, and administrative procedures in light of
  international legal obligations and human rights standards and, when necessary, providing
  appropriate assistance to their reform.
  * Evaluating the training given to host-nation judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, legal advisors,
  court administrators, and police and corrections officials in light of international legal
  obligations and human rights standards.
  * Advising commanders and others on the application of international, U.S., and host-nation law
  considered in restoring and enhancing rule of law in the host nation.
  * Advising commanders and U.S., international, and host-nation authorities on the legality,
  legitimacy, and effectiveness of the host nation’s legal system—including its government’s
  compliance with international legal obligations and host-nation law.