DG 1110-3-146
Design Guide: Military Police Facilities
December 1979
Example Designs for Army Military Police Facilities: Illustrative Example B
Figure 6-15 Site Development Considerations
Provide adequate paved area within secure fence
Provide "visual approach corridors"
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for occasional guard mount Inspection
Provide angled paving at walk corners
Locate primary activity Identification sign for easy
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8' high wall to screen critical areas
visibility by oncoming vehicular and pedestrian
traffic
Provide 4' wide area between at walkways
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Provide designated or reserved stalls in public and
Provide directional signs that separate traffic
staff parking areas for handicapped personnel.
Locate evergreen trees to protect building from
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Designated "offlcial reserved parking" in public
the effects of prevailing winds
and staff parking areas
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Locate shade trees on south side of building
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Provide service access area with a wide turning
radius for rear unloading
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Locate planting areas to break-up expanse of pav-
ing in large parking areas
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Locate large shade trees on perimeter of parking
areas as a buffer for paved areas
Locate planting to screen views into military police
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operational areas
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Locate shade trees along edges of "visual ap-
proach corridors" at main public access points
Locate shrubs or ground cover in areas too small
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to be maintained as lawn
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Provide shade trees on south and west sides of
site to screen direct sunlight
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Provide mowing strips along shrub beds, walls,
and fences to reduce maintenance.
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Provide low shrubs where unobstructed view IS
required
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Provide pedestrian walkway lights
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Provide landscaping at police entrances to en-
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Provide general roadway and parking lights
frame access points and to soften visual impact in
transitional spaces
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Provide security floodlighting for MP areas located
for unobstructed surveillance by pole mounted
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Locate small shade trees in parking areas to screen
CCTV cameras
reflected sunlight
Provide additional landscaping to establish desired
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Locate evergreen trees along site boundary or
character
perimeter of buffer zone
Provide drop-off zone adjacent to main entry
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Preserve existing or undisturbed natural land-
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scape.
Provide bollards to control traffic, identify drop-off
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zones, and allow curb-free access by the handi-
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Provide earth berms as visual screens
capped
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Provide security fencing for operations
Site Development
Considerations
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