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ADJUTANT GENERAL’S CORPS
25th ANNIVERSARY

Brigadier C A Findlay CBE Brigadier E O Forster-Knight OBE Brigadier R W Warren MBE

1st Military Police Brigade Royal Military Police Military Provost Staff
Corps
In 2014 all Military Police Regiments Since the formation of the Adjutant
and the Military Provost Staff Regiment General’s Corps the Royal Military The Military Provost Staff Corps deliver
were unified under a single command Police have consistently provided Police the best possible forms of detention
for the first time to form the 1st Military Support to the force whist Policing and rehabilitation for all three Services
Police Brigade. The Brigade was, for a the force. This has seen them deploy under Sentence. As well as supporting
time, under tactical command, whilst wherever the Army does both in the the Army on operations providing the
retaining independence for investigative firm base, United Kingdom and abroad, detention capability for Defence.
purposes, of Force Troops Command. In and on operations where they were
December 2017, under BROADWAY, the heavily involved in Operation Telic and Military Provost Guard
General Police Duties Regiments were Operation Herrick, as well as many Service
moved under tactical command to the others.
3rd (United Kingdom) Division and the Over the last 25 years the Military
specialist Regiments were moved under Provost Guard Service have gone from
command of the Deputy Chief of the non-existence to being an integral part
General Staff. Throughout, the Provost of Defence’s security network, providing
Marshal (Army) has retained command a valuable armed guarding function to
of 1st Military Police Brigade. many sites across Defence.

Brigadier D S Neal

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