"RTO Trainer" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Colin Campbell" (remove underscore) wrote
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Actually, no.

The military does not have arrest powers for any persons not under the
UCMJ.

What happens in real life is that - for minor offenses - the subject
is cited with a mandatory court appearance before a US Magistrate.
For serious offenses the subject is detained pending the arrival of
the US Marshals or FBI (who conduct the arrest).

(I spent a year pulling 'Military Police Duty Officer' 3-4x a month at
Ft Lewis not long ago and I got to be an expert on jurisdictional
issues.)


So if a civilian commits an offense on a military installation the
military
police have no power to seize and hold him?

Of course they do. They just don't have the power to arrest him.

Military police are not trained to collect evidence for a civilian
prosecution and therefore they wait for help in these matters. The person
is already arrested when the military seizes them, but the military police
are not trained for an investigation leading to a conviction, in civilian
courts.