police are structured plus the deployability problem, the only viable solution is to develop a 'Constabulary Assistance' Battalion /Group or whatever using the MP Corps. The fact that they are not now trained to do that is irrelevant; what is needed is the relevant factor. We're looking at the future, not at today.

It is an ongoing problem and as one poster here has said -- and as was said at your game -- the Air Force trains their folks to be primarily law enforcement types as opposed to tactical elements. There is no reason in the world that a select number of Army and Marine MPs cannot be similarly trained.

As a national police element, even the RCMP and the AFP are not as applicable as are the models of the Gendarmerie Nationale and the Koninklijke Marechaussee. I have little doubt either would be glad to offer spaces for such training and for the worker bees, there are Police Academies all over this country that can offer civilian LE training, some of it exceptionally good.

Oh, and if we go that route, the lower grade MPs selected need to be second hitch guys; that is NOT a job for 19 year olds with guns...