Talk:Provost (military police)

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This article shoud be deleted as (a) it is a poorly written duplicate of the article Military Police, and (b) it is US-centric, imposing a US-specific meaning of the word "provost" on countries where the word is either not used or, if it is, has a different meaning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.47.241.144 (talk) 10:12, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at the article military police, you will see that actually there are four different meanings of military police. In order to reduce confusuion, we have adopted provost to mean a section of the military solely responsible for policing the armed forces. Ascribing the term military police to any of the four possible meanings would be equally national-centric. ninety:one 15:22, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article military police introduces the 4 meanings but then the content is a duplicate of this article (or vice-versa).There is clearly an article too much. --Jardeheu (talk) 10:59, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article merger or rewrite[edit]

I would suggest this article be considered for merger into the ‘military police’ article or re-written. It contains no unique information concerning forces that operate as MP under the title of ‘provost.’

A re-write could be done from the angle of detailing such forces (I’m not even sure there are any?), the historical use of the term ‘provost,’ (I know in the US, before the establishment of a permanent military police corps with professional troops trained in policing that military law enforcement was conducted by a ‘provost marshal’ — a term still used today — with ‘deputies’ or troops assigned to them, usually called ‘provost guards,’ or simply ‘provosts’), etc. MWFwiki (talk) 07:04, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OMON and military police - what?[edit]

OMON is a riot police in Russia, it has never been used as a military police. 81.4.242.107 (talk) 17:11, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]