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SITUATION:

A platoon is responsible for access security and a portion of perimeter security at Warrior base.

EVENT(S):

1. A trash truck comes to the camp. While in the compound, a large crowd forms at the single access point to intercept the truck on its departure.

2. The roving guard finds a break in the wire and two U.S. hand grenades.

3. Civilian workers start rumors that the U.S. force is hiring additional workers at the front gate. A crowd rapidly assembles and becomes hostile because the soldiers securing the gate refuse to hire them or allow them into the compound. The crowd tries to enter compound.

4. Two teenagers and one adult are found trespassing in the camp.

5. A thief is seen carrying goods towards the wire inside the camp.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

EVENT(S):

1. Employ graduated response techniques for crowd control.

2. Secure site, report to higher HQ (do not disturb the site). Commander must employ EOD, request MPs and conduct sensitive items checks and LOT number checks.

3. Simultaneously employ graduated response techniques for crowd control. Have the speaker team confirm or deny the rumor. If the unit is hiring civilian workers, select an off-site location to interview, hire and pay.

4. Detain the individuals using nonlethal means. CI should interrogate and search. Civilians may be stopped if they appear to be a threat to U.S. Forces, key facilities, or property designated mission-essential. If determined to be a threat, they may be further detained; if not, they will be released.

5. Detain the individual using nonlethal means. CI should interrogate and search. This individual is involved in stealing; the ROE defines stealing as burglary or larceny.

ROE Limitations and Restrictions:

ROE 5: Civilians may be stopped if they appear to be a threat to U. S. Forces, protected persons, key facilities, or property designated mission-essential. If determined to be a threat, they may be further detained; if not, they will be released.

ROE 6: Necessary and proportional force is authorized to control disturbances and disperse crowds threatening essential civic order.

ROE 7: Nonlethal force is authorized to detain persons observed committing burglary or larceny.