DEFENCE OF BRITAIN
CANADIAN MILITARY POLICE IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES (Rec. 8 p.m.) RUGBY, May 10. Canadian military police, most of them drawn from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, are playing an important part in the manoeuvres which the Canadian army is carrying out in preparation for the defence of Britain against invasion. Setting out in advance on motor cycles the military police erect speci-ally-designed signs and dimmed lights at all major intersections where they maintain traffic control posts night and day. The security and mobility of thousands of troops and hundreds of vehicles may depend upon the efficiency of their control. In actual operations the military police must be front-line troops, moving ahead of the main formations, plotting the way, and seeing that units are guided to the right locations. They are also responsible for taking charge of prisoners of war.
The Canadian Military Police Company now in England is completely self-contained, and carries its own food, petrol, ammunition, blankets, and other equipment. It is the only unit in the Canadian army which has no privates. Every man has at least one stripe.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24604, 12 May 1941, Page 6
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