Training
After completing training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (44 wks), you will attend the twelve-week Military Officers’ Course (MPOC) at the Defence College of Policing and Guarding, Southwick Park. Here, you will gain a detailed insight into police duties, investigations, evidence handling, military law and other key aspects of policing which will prepare you for your first posting as an RMP Platoon Commander.
You will then undertake a three month familiarisation attachment to the Special Investigation Branch (SIB), which is the Army’s equivalent of the Criminal Investigation Department of the civilian Police force, which deal with serious service and criminal offences such as sexual offences, drugs, homicide and fraud.
As a Captain you will then complete a six-month formal attachment with the SIB. Upon the successful completion of the nine-week Serious Crime Investigations Course at Southwick Park, you will be equipped to conduct investigations into serious Service offences.
Skills you can learn
The RMP are responsible for protecting senior military commanders and members of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The eight-week Close Protection (CP) course is physically and mentally demanding and provides the CP operative with enhanced weapon handling skills, advanced driving techniques, and personal protection and body-guarding tactics. As a CP Team Leader you could deploy with highly skilled and effective CP operatives, to a number of overseas countries.
As RMP, we must be prepared to deploy, wherever we are required, as a fully integrated part of the field Army. 156 Provost Company provides police support to 16 Air Assault Brigade. Officers who serve within this Company have the opportunity to attempt P-Coy, earn their ‘wings’, and deploy in a PARA provost role.
The Royal Marines Police Troop is made up of Royal Marine police NCOs; however, the troop is commanded by an RMP Captain. As an RMP Officer you may attempt the Commando course and attain the prestigious dagger.
