Talk:Military police

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WW II Canadian army called military police the "provost corps". I think the term is more general than that, perhaps other Commonwealth armies, and should be mentioned in the article. However, I don't know enough to add it myself. Sandy Harris 14:07, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

WWII Germany called in Field Police or Field Military Police; WWI Britain, in practice, just spoke of Redcaps, but officially they were Royal Military Police. In the (British) Royal Navy, I forget the exact term, but it's something like "regulating coxswain". I don't think that it was a term used by the Soviets in WWII; it was just one of the functions of NKVD (or name du jour) personnel attached to Red Army units.

In Washington DC, there are "armed forces police", while, in the field, the Army has Military Police (and some other organizations), the Navy has the Shore Patrol or Master-at-Arms Force, and the Air Force has Air Police or Security Police.

There could certainly be a table of national terms, but I used it in the same generic sense I would use infantry or artillery. Howard C. Berkowitz 14:52, 27 March 2009 (UTC)