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The Royal Military Police (RMP) is the corps of the British Army responsible for the policing of army service personnel, and for providing a military police presence both in the UK and while service personnel are deployed overseas on operations and exercises.
[101] [102] Of the 300,000 troops who served in Northern Ireland since 1969, there were 763 British military personnel killed [103] and 306 killed by the British military, mostly civilians. [104] An estimated 100 soldiers committed suicide during Operation Banner or soon afterwards and a similar number died in accidents.
Military buildings, property, and employees (as well as other areas upon request by another police force, and in certain other circumstances), in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: Special police force Norfolk Constabulary: County of Norfolk: 1,921 [1] £177.2 [2] 5,371: 1839 East of England: England and Wales: Territorial police force
1st Military Police Brigade at Marlborough Lines, Andover CGS retains full responsibility over military police investigations while day-to-day control of 1 and 3 RMP rest with General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3rd UK Division. Administrative control of other Royal Military Police Brigade units rest under GOC Regional Command.
The Defence School of Policing and Security is the training centre for the Service Police of the British Armed Forces including the Ministry of Defence.It consolidates training for the Royal Navy Police, Royal Military Police and Royal Air Force Police and the Ministry of Defence Police in one location, assuring consistent standards across the services.
Service police/military police personnel are not constables under UK law and they do not have any police powers over the general public; however, they have the full range of policing powers that constables possess when dealing with service personnel or civilians subject to service discipline, drawing their powers from the Armed Forces Act 2006 ...
The Metropolitan Police was one of the first to introduce a cadet corps or force in 1948, intended to boost then-low recruitment levels (it was then 3,000 below its 'establishment' figure of 28,000, with officers working two of their monthly 'rest days' and being paid for this work).
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was formed on the site of the former Royal Military College (founded in 1801 for the training of officers for arms other than the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers) in 1947 when it amalgamated with the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (founded in 1741 for the training of officers for the Royal Artillery ...