DG 1110-3-146
Design Guide: Military Police Facilities
Space Organization Considerations: Individual Space Standards
December 1979
files and reference material storage must be provided.
round the on-duty operations area. The communica-
tions room, MP desk area, the duty office, and the
(c) Investigative personnel not performing confiden-
duty investigator's room must be fireproofed for a two-
tial or sensitive functions may be given semi-private
hour rating. The on-duty operations area functions as
accommodations in open office areas by providing
a 24-hour police services center. This area normally
partial-height partitions in a location out of the way
requires facilities for a desk sergeant, administrative
of public circulation.
assistant (desk clerk), radio and telephone operator,
(3) Requirements for Open Office Space The
a possible electronic communications specialist (in-
general functional requirements and physical attri-
put out-put operator), duty officer and duty investi-
butes of open office space are:
gator; and specially designed spaces for MP desk
operations, communications equipment, and for the
(a) Supervisory military police and civilian personnel
temporary storage of weapons for on-duty and trans-
routinely review, instruct orcorrect staff during short
ient personnel, evidence and found property.
meetings at their desks. This activity normally re-
quires a side chair. More frequent and larger meet-
ings will require additional chairs.
(f) All conference, meeting and interview rooms, and
all administrative support and operations activity
(b) Reports-processing clerks and others who pre-
areas likely to be interior spaces should be well
pare repetitive forms and whose work involves the
ventilated mechanically, or cooled where the climate
use of MTST equipment are assigned space alloca-
requires, and provided with direct or indirect
tions that can support a more intensive mechanical/
light where personnel positions require full-time
clerical activity.
occupancy.
(c) Clerk/typists require typewriter space as well as
(5) Special Operations Space A number of special
desk space for surface and storage.
operations spaces are required from which the on-
(d) Civilian clerks and military police personnel who
duty operations area can be assembled. These
require only desk and chair work stations are as-
spaces are generally referred to as operations com-
signed typical clerical space allocations.
ponents and include: a military police reception
(4) Requirements for Meeting/Interviewing Space
counter, usually placed at floor level on the public
The general functional requirements and physical
lobby side of the desk area; raised floor areas for
attributes of meeting and interviewing space are:
MP desk operations/communications modules; and
holding, detention and prisoner-processing areas
(a) A room seating from 16 to 24, classroom style,
and supervised waiting and other on-duty spaces of
in tablet-arm chairs, is required in the MP patrol area
various sizes and functions.
for briefing and training purposes. It should possess
resources for projection, many displays, chalk-
(6) Space Allocation Standards Space allocation
boards and similar teaching/briefing aids.
standards are provided on the following pages. The
standards illustrate "optimum" room layouts which
(b) A meeting room is required for use by the pro-
should be considered in establishing functional re-
vost marshal in meeting with his staff and the public,
quirements for individual military police activities
military and civilian. A conference room accom-
and organizations. Since the space standards are
modating up to 12 people and equipped similarly
`optimum,' the actual layout will depend on the gen-
to the patrol area briefing room should be allocated
eral functional needs of specific MP activities. The
to the main lobby area with easy access to the
spatial, personnel, and furniture and equipment re-
public and the provost marshal's office.
quirements illustrated in each space standard, how-
ever, will be typical for a wide range of general
reports throughout and following their tour of duty.
operational intensities (small, medium and large MP
A report-writing room near the MP desk, equipped
facilities). Space standards can be usefully applied to
with writing carrels to afford visual privacy, is required.
a variety of staffing levels, as in the case of open
(d) MP investigators, traffic accident investigators
office standards and private and semi-private admin-
and uniform patrol personnel must have small inter-
istrative support spaces. The nature of functional
view rooms available for interview purposes. Rooms
requirements in operations areas requires that a
must be large enough to accommodate a small desk
careful analysis of local requirements be made before
(or table), several chairs, and afford complete acous-
standards are applied. For this reason, operations
tical privacy.
areas have been broken down into basic compo-
nents, which can be readily adapted to local
(e) Interview space, public waiting areas, and the
requirements.
reports-writing and police lobby spaces usually sur-
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