text: FM 2-22.3 _________________________________________________________________________________
  PRISONER-OF-WAR STATUS
  E-7. Captured personnel (CPERS) can be divided into two categories:
  Captured personnel who are PWs and other detainees.
  E-8. Prisoner-of-war status is conferred on captured personnel who fall
  within the categories listed in Article 4 of GC3, which is reproduced in
  Annex A, or, if ratified by the nations concerned, those who meet the
  expanded definition of a PW as stated in Protocol I of the 1977 Protocols.
  E-9. Other detainees are personnel being held by NATO forces until their
  status can be determined and their further disposition can be decided.
  E-10. Furthermore, when NATO forces are engaged in Peacetime Support
  Operations (PSOs), the operational plan should contain specific instructions
  as to which individuals will have PW status. Directions for handling other
  detainees, including those suspected of crimes against humanity and war
  crimes, are also to be included in the operational plan or in the Standing
  Operating Procedures used in the operation.
  PERSONNEL
  E-11. Conditions allowing, the following procedures should be followed by the
  capturing unit:
  a. CPERS should be disarmed immediately, and all documents and
  effects of military or investigative interest except for necessary clothing,
  identity documents and protective equipment (Geneva Convention Relative
  to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GC3), Article 18) should be removed.
  CPERS should then be tagged in accordance with the procedures outlined at
  Annex B. A Common Capture Report should also be completed and forwarded
  in accordance with the procedure set out in Annex C. It is important that the
  documents, equipment, maps, etc., taken from a CPERS accompany him to
  the next receiving unit. Valuable information may be lost by not having these
  items available during processing and interrogation.
  b. Within the confines of the tactical situation, CPERS are to be
  segregated according to rank, grade, service, sex and nationality or ethnic
  group/warring faction to minimize the opportunity to prepare counter-
  interrogation measures. Furthermore, deserters, civilians and political
  indoctrination personnel will be individually segregated from other CPERS.
  Such segregation shall be undertaken in a manner which does not violate
  GC3, Article 16.
  c. Talking or fraternization between CPERS is to be prevented in order
  not to prejudice future intelligence collection operations. CPERS will be
  allowed no opportunity to exchange information between themselves, to
  exchange identities or to dispose of articles of intelligence interest.
  d. Interrogation operations must not be compromised by contact between
  CPERS and personnel not concerned with interrogation duties.
  e. CPERS will also be prevented from observing sensitive and critical
  activities, equipment and procedures involving NATO, national or allied
  forces.