Royal Marines Police
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| Country |  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Allegiance | HM The Queen |
| Branch | Royal Navy |
| Type | Service Police |
| Role | Policing and Counter-intelligence |
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| Her Majesty's Naval Service of the British Armed Forces |
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The Royal Marines Police (RNP) is the service police branch of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.[1] Members of the RM Police enforce service law and discipline.
The Royal Marines Police is a unit of the Royal Navy Police and the military police of the British Royal Marines.
Duties and responsibilities[]
The RM Police is responsible for providing garrison policing services – law enforcement and crime prevention as well as general security advice to the command – and includes a Special Investigation Branch (SIB) section for the investigation of serious crime.
RM Police personnel are recruited from within the trained strength of the Royal Marines, following completion of a first posting to a rifle troop in a Commando.
Units[]
The primary formed unit of the Royal Marines Police is a troop within UK Landing Force Command Support Group, the Headquarters support unit of 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines, based at Stonehouse Barracks, Plymouth.
Operations[]
In military operations, the Royal Marines Police Troop provide military police support for all phases of operations and peacekeeping operations including co-ordinating vehicle movements out of the beachhead, marking the main supply routes and providing convoy escorts. It also conducts general police duties and provides close protection for the Brigade Commander. Personnel are eligible to undertake the close protection courses run by the Royal Military Police. Royal Marines Police personnel are also attached to other units.
Powers and authority[]
Marines and officers of the Royal Marines Police are not constables and have no powers in relation to civil law enforcement. However, they are Service Police persons and do have authority under the Armed Forces Act 2006.
In 2009 the RM Police was absorbed into the Royal Navy Police,[2] although it still exists as a distinct unit.[3]
See also[]
- Military police of the United Kingdom
- United States Marine Corps Civilian Police
Notes[]
- ^ Commons, The Committee Office, House of. "House of Commons - Armed Forces - Written Evidence". www.publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ "Memorandum from the Ministry of Defence". parliament.uk. March 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ 30 Commando RM Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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