Police Intelligence Operations — FM 3-19.50

Date Published: 21 July 2006

Date Added to MFM: 23 August 2009

Categories: Military Police, US Army

Field Manual (FM) 3-19.50 is a new FM and is the Military Police Corps' manual for police intelligence operations (PIO) doctrine. It describes the following:

• The fundamentals of PIO.
• The legal documents and considerations affiliated with PIO.
• The PIO process.
• The relationship of PIO to the Army's intelligence process.
• The introduction of police and prison structures, organized crime, legal systems, investigations, crime-conducive conditions, and enforcement mechanisms and gaps (POLICE)—a tool to assess the criminal dimension and its influence on effects-based operations (EBO).
• PIO in urban operations (UO) and on installations.
• The establishment of PIO networks and associated forums and fusion cells to affect gathering police information and criminal intelligence (CRIMINT).