Duty while conducting law enforcement
The Army value Duty means to fulfill your obligations. Doing your duty means more than carrying out your tasks. Duty means being able to accomplish tasks as part of a team. The work of the U.S. Army is a complex combination of missions, tasks and responsibilities all in constant motion. Our work entails building one assignment onto another. You fulfill your obligations as part of your unit every time you resist temptation to take shortcuts that might diminish the integrity of the final product.
Our mission as Military Police officers is to be able to overcome any situation and be able to act with precise skill. We are sworn to assist, protect, and defend the lives and property on military installations by enforcing military laws and regulations.
Everything that is valued as a soldier was broken on the 14 of April 2015 by PFC Suarez. This soldier was found by an unknown individual who had seen a patrol vehicle parked out at Holbrook Pond. This individual proceeded to flash his headlights at the patrol car for about 5-10 minutes. No response was given form the patrol, thus it was concluded that they were sleeping. As a result of this incident, Central was notified of the patrols neglect.
The patrol had failed the people of Fort Stewart. As a Military Police officer, Alertness is key. They were hit with the normal feeling of being tired. Although this is an obstacle they had to fight at the time. The patrols are all notified at the beginning of their shift that if they feel tired they must get out of their vehicles and/or notify their patrol supervisor so they can head back to the Provost Marshalls Office. The patrol that was caught did neither of these. Being alert means to stay awake at all times during your shift. If not then there is a multiple number of outcomes that could have happened.
For example during the patrols nap they could have received a call from Central to respond to an incident but they would have been unaware and the outcome could have been much worse.
The patrol should have fought their obstacle. If they couldn’t they should have done the right thing and called their patrol supervisor to let them know
