Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 2000. Corrected and updated 19.07.2004
 
 

Security and Military Police Branch, CF
and
The Canadian Provost Corps

 
Canada 
  Titles & Lineage
  History
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards & Guidons
  Uniforms & Badges
  Colonels-in-Chief
  Colonels

  Biography & Gallantry Awards
  Traditions
  Alliances
  Associations, Forums, Re-Enactors
  Museums, Monuments, Memorials
  Bibliography

How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
1917.10.15 Canadian Military Police Corps
  disbanded

1939.11.01 No. 1 Provost Company, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
1940.06.15 Canadian Provost Corps
1968.02.01 Security Branch, Canadian Forces
formed by amalgamation with Canadian Intelligence Corps and equivalent police and intelligence services of the navy and air force, with MP platoons integrated into Service Battalions of the Logistic Branch
1971 Regular Force MP units became independent of Service Battalions
1982 intelligence services separated to form Intelligence Branch
1999 Security and Military Police Branch, Canadian Forces
2003.04.01 Reserve MP units restructed as independent units
Canadian Military Police Corps, by John Cameron.
Canadian Forces Security Branch 1967-2001, by John Cameron.
Canadian Provost Corps, 1940-1968, by George Hennecke.
History of the Canadian Provost Corps, by James D. Lumsden.
Canadian Military Police, by Simon D. Olley.
   
Units:
Educational and Training Establishments:

Note: battle honours are not awarded to this corps.

 
Note: this corps does not carry Colours.
   
Badges: Armorial Description [to 1967]: The Royal Crest resting upon a riband bearing the inscription CANADIAN; below the riband, a scroll inscribed PROVOST CORPS.
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
[none]
 
Roll of Honour, by George Hennecke.
 
Motto: Discipline by example [to 1968]; Securitas [1968-present]
Nicknames: Meatheads
Anniversaries:
Freedoms:
Marches: Through Night to Light, by Laukien
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:

Corps of Royal Military Police

-1992

Intelligence Corps

1968-1982
1992-present
Canadian Military Police Association
No. 5 Company, Canadian Provost Corps (Museum of Applied Military History)
Canadian Military Police Virtual Museum, by John Cameron.
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
Ritchie, Andy. Watchdog : a history of the Canadian Provost Corps.
 
Short Histories: