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Making Arrests On The Battlefield
More than 100 military police reservists are currently in Cyprus on training mission Exercise Lion Star.
One of the skills they're practising is how to detain prisoners captured on the battlefield.
After being given a brief that resembles a real-life situation, Royal Military Police have been heading out onto the training area at Episkopi to investigate reports of looting from the battlefield.
The exercise is designed to test how well they can deal with detainees - What the British Army calls C Pers, or captured persons.
The reservists later engage in a practice firefight, after which, 'insurgents' are killed or captured, before prisoners are led away to a makeshift detention facility.
Like most exercises, however, this one has a twist: A group of pretend locals have arrived to protest, and the Red Caps are forced to deal with them as well as their prisoners...
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