CHAPTER 2 ORGANIZATION 4. Mission and Organization Military police support to a division is provided primarily by the organic division military police company. The military police company is organized functionally and is composed of a provost marshal section, a company headquarters, a security platoon, and a variable number of military police platoons, depending on the type division to which assigned (fig. 1). See TOE 19-27 and TOE 19-67 for details concerning appropriate strength and equipment. 5. Capabilities and Limitations a. This unit performs the above mission within the division. It has the capability of performing the following functions: (1) Operation of a provost marshal section at-the division headquarters. V Op (2) Traffic control operations within the division area.
DesignationFM 19-1
EditionJul 1966
StatusSuperseded
Pages58
FunctionSmall Unit Tactics
EchelonBrigade
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)