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202nd Military Police Group (CID)

The 202nd Military Police Group (CID), located at Stem Kaserne in Seckenheim, Germany, provides command and control over primarily tactical CID units in Europe. Elements of the 202nd Military Police Group (CID) provides thorough, timely and quality criminal investigative support to commanders and military communities of the U.S. Army, Europe, and supports contingency operations throughout the European, African, Middle East and Southwest Asian areas of responsibility.

The 202nd MP Group (CID) is responsible for the area east of longitude 30 degrees west, including the Azores Islands, excluding Greenland, and extending to longitude 90 degrees east, which includes Iceland, Scandinavia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Afghanistan and Pakistan and, excluding the area of Asia east of the borders of India, China and Mongolia, and east of longitude 90 degrees east.

Headquarters, 202nd MP Group (CID), will make the determination as to who will respond to matters within its AOR.

On 24 September 1999, Second Region, United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC), was redesignated as 202d MP Group (CID). The redesignation ceremony was conducted with all traditions and honors being observed. The officiating officers for the ceremony were COL George W. Smith, Deputy Commander, USACIDC, and COL Randy Garver, Commander, Second Region, USACIDC.

The Second Region, USACIDC, was organized in March 1972 as a provisional unit. The Region was formed from the Headquarters and Field Detachments of the 9th MP Group (Criminal Investigations) which were operating in support of U.S. Army, Europe (USAEUR) and 7th Army. In May 1972, the Second Region was officially integrated into CID and assigned the mission of providing criminal investigative support to U.S. Army and other U.S. military and civilian law-enforcement agencies in an area extending from the North Pole to the South Pole and from the Azores to India. The Second Region's missions included general and economic crime investigations, drug-suppression operations, protective services, crime-prevention surveys, and countering terrorism.

The Second Region inactivated on 16 September 1993 as a result of overall USAREUR force reductions. The 5th MP Detachment (CID) (Corps Support Element), serving as a subordinate district of the 3d MP Group (CID), Fort Gillem, Georgia, assumed responsibility for accomplishing the Second Region's mission.

Three years later, the Second Region was reactivated during September 1996. With the headquarters in Mannheim-Seckenheim, Germany, the region was organized into two subordinate battalions: the 5th MP Battalion (CID) and the Bavaria CID Battalion. Major subordinate company-level organizations included the 262d MP Detachment, Corps Area Support Element (CASE), in Bamberg; the 481st MP Detachment (CASE) in Kaiserslautern; and the 515th MP Detachment (CASE) in Hanau.

Three years later, the color guard escorted the Second Region's colors forward to the official party. CSM William F. Merrill furled the colors and cased them for the last time. He then passed the colors to COL Garver who turned and passed them to COL Smith. He then returned the colors to CSM Merrill for safekeeping. The cased colors were removed from the parade ground for the last time to take their place in history, representing a major command that contributed greatly to the resurrection of a free Europe. After the Region's colors were removed and secured, the new 202d MP Group (CID) colors were marched onto the field and presented to COL Smith. He handed them to COL Garver, entrusting him with continuing the proud tradition of the unit. COL Garver passed the still-cased colors to CSM Merrill, who unfurled them as the narrator read the order officially redesignating the Second Region as the 202d Military Police Group (CID).

The 202d's subordinate headquarters commands and controls the 23 CID Resident Agencies (RA) and Branch Offices (BO) who support the military communities in Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. The group provides direct combat support to USAREUR, EUCOM, SHAPE, AMF, V Corps, the 1st Infantry Division, the 1st Armored Division, and the 21st Theater Support Command. The group's area of responsibility includes all of Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Persian Gulf. While the majority of the group's investigative elements are located within Germany, offices are also located in Italy and the Netherlands. Also, soldiers from the group are currently deployed in Bosnia, Hungary, and Kosovo supporting Task Force Eagle and Task Force Falcon.