6th Military Police Group (CID)
The 6th MP Group (CID) is responsible for investigating felony crimes of Army interest, anytime, covering an area that stretches from west of the Mississippi all the way to Asia. The unit investigates all serious felony crimes which have an impact on the Army. The scope of its investigations range from murders, to drug investigations, to frauds. It conducts these investigations anywhere the Army happens to be: from Army installations in the United States, Korea and Japan to field training exercises around the world; in peace and in war.
The 6th MP Group (CID) supports an area of operations encompassing 22 states west of the Mississippi river; Alaska; Hawaii; and the Pacific rim focused primarily in Korea and Japan. The 6th MP Group (CID) is responsible for the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii; the counties of Calhoun, Jersey, Madison, St. Clair, and Monroe in the state of Illinois; the Canadian Provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories of Canada west of longitude 97 degrees west; Mexico; that portion of the Pacific Ocean west of longitude 90 degrees west, except the Galapagos Islands; the Indian Ocean, the area east of longitude 90 degrees east, to include Madagascar, India, China, Mongolia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan.
Its mission includes criminal investigations, logistics security during contingency operations, counter-terrorism, and protective services for selected Department of Defense and international defense leaders. The Group is responsible for all felony criminal investigation matters with a US Army interest throughout it operational area.
The 6th MP Group supports commanders by conducting criminal investigations of serious, sensitive or special interest matters; preventing crime; and preserving the force and Army resources in peacetime, combat, and contingency operations throughout the Group's area of operations.
The 6th Military Police Group (CID) is a brigade level group with four Battalion commands known as districts and a separate Field Office in Hawaii: The group headquarters is located at Fort Lewis, WA, and oversees all operations within group. Its mission is to support CID operations from west of the Mississippi to Asia. The 11th CID Battalion is located at Fort Hood, Texas and covers most of Texas, southern New Mexico, southern Arkansas, and all of Louisiana. The 19th CID Battalion is located in Seoul, Korea and covers all of Asia with offices in Korea, Japan and Okinawa. The 22d CID Battalion is also located at Fort Lewis and covers Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona and Alaska. The Fort Riley District Battalion is located at Fort Riley, Kansas and covers Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, northern New Mexico, northern Arkansas, and the Texas panhandle. The Hawaii Field Office is a separate command with responsibility for the Hawaiian Islands and most of the Pacific islands except Guam.
The 6th Military Police Group was constituted 9 March 1965 in the Regular Army and activated 25 March 1965 at the Presidio of San Francisco, CA. It was inactivated on 29 March 1972 at the Presidio of San Francisco, CA, and later reactivated on 16 October 1994 at Fort Lewis, WA.
