military police

plural noun

1. soldiers who perform police duties within the army. MP

military police

noun

1. a corps within an army that performs police and disciplinary duties

Other Word Forms

• military policeman noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of military police¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Dr. Zoubi, whose own brother died in a military police headquarters years earlier.

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At a Senate hearing, the deputy intelligence secretary for Rio's military police stated that the raid had had a "negligible" impact on dismantling Comando Vermelho.

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The operation was Brazil's most lethal to date, surpassing the 1992 Carandiru prison massacre in Sao Paulo, which left 111 inmates dead when military police stormed in to stop a riot.

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The joint operation by civil and military police comes after a year-long investigation.

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The three victims who died were members of the Carabinieri military police.

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Related Words

• gendarmerie