GDA 2017: US and Kuwaiti military police conduct partnership academy

6th December 2017 - 12:00 GMT | by Beth Maundrill in London

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The US and Kuwait is looking to expand its partnership and enhance shared knowledge between its military police battalions, with a five week training programme conducted recently.

Dubbed the Military Police Partnership Academy, the exercise involved soldiers from the US 340th Military Police Battalion Theater Field Confinement Facility and their Kuwaiti counterparts.

The programme focused on a variety of skills from convoy operations and combat first aid to detention operations and riot control training.

The exercise too place from 25 September to 30 October. Kuwait sent 34 participants from Kuwaiti military police and 14 members of the Amiri Guard, eight

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