Royal Military Police

[JohnKelly]

Here is an interesting article where Major Garry Evanson describes the work of the Royal Military Police world-wide and its increasingly close links with local police forces in the UK.

Royal Military Police (http://www.army.mod.uk/rhqrmp/index.htm)

Scroll down to the bottom of the above Link and click on 'Article by Maj. G. Evanson (RMP)

Cheers.

[Sleuth]

Interesting. I would take it that they are generally not armed (or not visably armed) in the UK, off base. What do they carry as a handgun when armed on base, in the UK? Do they carry handguns or just the SA80A2 outside the UK on duty?

[Ex-plod]

You often see them up in Central London pretending to be looking for errant Squadies but seeing as the squaddies arent in uniform I am not sure how they can tell what they are looking for! Are they just checking out the crumpet or am I being cynical? When on such duties they are not normally armed.

[JohnKelly]

....Are they just checking out the crumpet or am I being cynical?

No matter what the duties, no matter where the country, the crumpet must always be checked out. ;)

:( On a more sombre note.

Royal Military Police Murdered (http://www.policeoracle.com/?page=http://www.policeoracle.com/news/detail.h2f?id=6536&category=1&refresh=5C9CA9CC-FB2C-4E31-9D1F87C84816F1B4)