Defence
MDP Defence Community police officers (DCPOs, formerly Unit Beat Officers) carry out policing on Service family estates to provide reassurance and a policing response for the families of Service personnel who live in MOD properties
Defence community police officer working with Royal Military police
Defence Community police officers often work together with the Provost Marshall policing units (Royal Military Police, the RAF Police or the Royal Navy Regulator Branch), and have close working relationships with the local Home Office police force.
Defence community police officer visiting a service family at home
Service families feel more vulnerable during periods when partners are deployed away from home, especially in war theatre or other hostile zones, and effective community policing plays an important part in sustaining morale
Wildlife Officers
As the third largest landowner in the UK with 240,000 hectares of land, the MOD has a policy of minimising its operational impact on the environment and supporting wildlife.
With much MOD land in rural and coastal areas, the MDP officers with wildlife protection training have an important job. Officers regularly carry out patrols with colleagues from local police forces.
Their responsibilities include targeting poachers and people who steal the eggs of endangered birds. Officers also help to protect sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Defence estate (e.g. the Salisbury Plain training area) from damaging vandalism such as setting fire to cars and dangerous off-road driving.
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