scope:

Purpose: This issuance:

• Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, delegates authorities, and provides standards for the designation of officers and agents, and engaging in other activities, including carrying firearms, making arrests, and serving warrants, authorized by Section 2672 of Title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.) (referred to in this issuance as "Section 2672").

• Implements Section 2672.

APPLICABILITY.

a. This issuance applies to OSD, the Military Departments, the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD (referred to collectively in this issuance as the "DoD Components").

b. This issuance does not:

(1) Preclude or limit the authority of any non-DoD federal law enforcement agency.

(2) Restrict the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security under Chapter 1 of Title 6, U.S.C., also known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

(3) Restrict the authority of the Administrator of General Services, including the authority to develop and distribute regulations affecting property under the custody and control of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Administrator, respectively.

(4) Expand or limit Section 797 of Title 50, U.S.C., also known as "Section 21 of the Internal Security Act of 1950." (5) Affect Chapter 47 of Title 10, U.S.C., also known and referred to in this issuance as the "Uniform Code of Military Justice."

(6) Restrict any other authority of the Secretary of Defense (SecDef) or the Secretary of a Military Department.

(7) Restrict the authority of the Director of the National Security Agency in accordance with Section 3609 of Title 50, U.S.C.

(8) Preclude, limit, or impair the authority of any DoD Component's statutory Inspector General to carry out the Inspector General's responsibilities pursuant to Public Law 95-452, also known as the Inspector General Act of 1978.

(9) Preclude, limit, or impair the authority of any DoD Component's statutory Inspector General to request from the Attorney General and execute criminal law enforcement authorities pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978.

(10) Apply outside the United States.

(11) Preclude, limit, alter, or impair the investigative responsibilities of any Defense Criminal Investigative Organization, Military Criminal Investigative Organization, or Military Department Counterintelligence Organization.

(12) Authorize holding a person arrested pursuant to authority exercised in accordance with Section 2672 in a military confinement facility, other than in the case of a person who is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

(13) Authorize DoD support to federal, State, tribal, or local civilian law enforcement agencies.

(14) Indicate DoD consent to a reduction in the obligations of a federal, State, tribal, or local civilian law enforcement agency in enforcing the law within its jurisdiction.