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STABILITY POLICE
FORCE
By: David Deschesne
In 2009, the U.S. Army
commissioned Rand’s Arroyo
Center to publish a report on
the possibilities of creating a
Stability Police Force (SPF).
According to the report, an SPF
would be a military police
cloaked as civilian law
enforcement, using
quasi-military
officers/personnel who employ
military tactics and
exist/function with a currently
existing civilian federal law
enforcement agency in order to
circumvent the Posse Comitatus
Act’s prohibitions against using
military personnel to engage in
civilian law enforcement with
what are otherwise full-fledged
military personnel engaging in
civilian domestic law
enforcement on behalf of the
federal government; functioning
as a military unit would,
without the military label.
A force of up
to 6,000 troops, the SPF would
appear civilian, but act
military, subject to the Uniform
Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
and sharing same rank and
command structures as regular
military.
It would be deployed anywhere in
the world that advanced
militarized policing would be
needed and operate as "high-end"
federal law enforcement at home,
in the United States when not
deployed, in order to sharpen
policing skills, and maintain
training and readiness. To that
end, the militarized officers
would work for their home agency
(e.g. Marshall’s service, FBI,
etc.) and "assist" local,
civilian law enforcement using
militarized tactics under a
civilian facade to get around
the prohibitions in the Posse
Comitatus Act.
Still under review, the US
Marshall’s Service seems to be
the favorite home agency, picked
by the Rand Center. The U.S.
government is expected to adopt
this model in the near future,
to use militarized police
against a disgruntled American
citizenry, as well as to quash
resistance to illegal U.S.
occupations abroad.
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