HQ NRDC-ESP

Crowd control activity

Four-legged member at the exercise

PRT Military Police

The Military Police Battalion (BPM I), a unit subordinate to HQ NRDC-ESP, conducted from 26 to 30 June the most important multinational exercise of the year concerning Military Police missions, both at national and NATO level. This exercise, which takes place annually, aims to provide the participating units with scenarios similar to those that may be encountered in operations, to be resolved in accordance with national and Alliance doctrine, increase mutual knowledge, train together and exchange knowledge and experience, taking advantage of synergies that will facilitate coordinated work in missions abroad.

The exercise involved Military Police Units belonging to the Spanish Army, Navy, Air and Space Army, Emergency Military Unit (UME), Royal Guard and Civil Guard, as well as representatives from Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Jordan, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, with a total of around 670 participants, 175 vehicles and 40 dogs.

Ángel Guardián is a type of real deployment exercise in different scenarios similar to those in which the Military Police find themselves in the different Zones of Operations abroad to perform functions such as security, detention, mobility support and stabilisation policing, within a force support environment during a crisis response operation. For this purpose, a variety of incidents have arisen such as crowd control, route security, traffic jamming with military vehicles involved, building clearance, detention, searches, armed individuals inside military installations, active shooter, protection of authorities or evidence collection.