Army Questionnaire: Questions for the Commander of the Kandahar Detention Facility concerning his observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse and an effort to elicit information on the matter.
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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
SUBJECT: Interview of Kandahar Detention Facility Cdr (Cdr, MP Company Commander, CPTF 15 Feb 04
1. The CJTF180 IG interviewed the P Co Commander and asked these questions
Q: Do you know that prisoners will not be repatriated against their will?
A: All PUCs go straight to BAF.
Q: Are all MP personnel performing guard duties eligible to carry firearms?
A: Yes. At the mobilization station everyone qualified. In theatre we conduct weapons familiarization. Ranges are held once per month. We have shotgun familiarization, but there is currently a shortage of rounds.
Q: Do military and civilian personnel assigned to or accompanying a DoD Component know that they shall report reportable incidents through their chain of command and that such reports also may also be made through other channels, such as the military police, a judge advocate, or an Inspector General?
A: We notify CJTF-180, Warrior Commander (1 st Bde, 10th Mountain Division), Warrior SJA, and Task Force Guardian (CJTF-180 Provost Marshal)
Q: Do soldiers know that all prisoners will receive humane treatment and that the following acts are prohibited murder, torture, corporal punishment, mutilation, taking of hostages, sensory deprivation, collective punishments, execution without trial by proper authority, and all cruel and degrading treatment?
A: Have not had any prisoners acting up with discipline problems. We have 3 steps of punishmen.
Q: Do soldiers know that prisoners will be protected against all acts of violence to include public curiosity?
A: Yes, we have walls and guard towers.
Q: Do you use sensory deprivation?
A: We take goggles and ear muffs off when they get off inside the barn.
Q: Do soldiers know that photographing, filming, and videotaping of individual EPW, CI, and RP for other than internal Internment Facility administration or intelligence/counterintelligence purposes is strictly prohibited?
A: Soldiers climb the Air Traffic Control Tower and attempt to take photos but we confiscate the camera. We have brought this to the 1 st Brigade commander's attention
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and it has stopped. We also have coordinated with the ATC to notify us if they see anyone with a camera.
Q: Do soldiers know that there will be no group, wide area, or aerial photographs of EPW, CI, and RP or facilities will be taken unless approved by the senior Military Police officer in the Internment Facility commander's chain of command?
A: No photos are taken.
Q: Do all soldiers know to notify appropriate intelligence sources when EPW/RP are found in possession of large sums of US or foreign currency? -
A: " Everything is bagged by the time they get to KAF. We tell MI what the PUC possessed; ie Pakistani Rupees etc.
Q: Do Military Police provide the following information concerning EPW and RP to the National Prisoner of War Information Center (NPWIC)? AR 190-8 para 1-7b.
(1)
Complete name.
(2)
ISN.
(3)
Rank.
(4)
Serial number.
(5)
Date of birth.
(6)
City of birth.
(7)
Country of birth.
(8)
Name and address of next of kin.
(9)
Date of capture.
(10)
Place of capture.
(11)
Capturing unit.
(12)
Circumstances of capture.
(13)
Location of confiscated personal property.
(14)
Nationality.
(15)
General statement of health.
(16)
Nation in whose armed services the individual is serving.
(17)
Name and address of a person to be notified of the individual's capture.
(18)
Address to which correspondence may be sent.
(19)
Certificates of death or duly authenticated lists of the dead.
(20)
Information showing the exact location of war graves together with particulars of the dead.
(21)
Notification of capture.
(22)
List of personal articles of value not restored upon repatriation.
A: Use out own database. CITF agent collects DNA, fingerprint, photos, gunpowder swabs. Military Police only photograph and fingerprint and input into the JABS system. MI will test clothes when they think there's intelligence value. We have only 2 NIPRNET accounts for the entire MP Company
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Q: Do Military Police Obtain and store information concerning CI and ODs who are kept in the custody of U.S. Armed Forces who are subjected to assigned residence, or who were interned and then released? AR 190-8 para 1-7c.
A: We burn the files onto CD. Our predecessors left us their records.
(1) Any particulars that may assist in the individual's identification. This information shall include at least the person's surname, first name, place and date of birth, nationality, list residence and distinguishing characteristics, the first name of the father and the maiden name of the mother, the date, place and nature of the action taken with regard to the individual, the address at which correspondence may be sent and the name and address of the person to be informed.
A: We try to get directions to the person's house. MI collects it and sometimes provides Military Police a copy of the directions to the hut, house, or hole.
Q: Do units designated to receive prisoners at the collection points or camps prepare a DD Form 629 receipt (Receipt for Prisoner or Detained Person) with a list of each prisoner's name attached and provide a copy of the receipt to the escort? AR 190-8 para 2-1a.(f)
A: We sign for the detainee and also get a signed release. We use the DA Form 2708.
-Q: Are cells use in close confinement at least 6 feet wide, 8 feet long, and 8 feet high? AR 190-47 para 9-4(b)
A: Yes
Q: Does the EPW/CI facility commander? AR 190-8 para 3-3
(1) Process interned prisoners to include tagging, assignment of ISN, fingerprinting, photographing, and weighing, as needed.
A: ISN numbers are given by J2 when the PUC is approved to go to GITMO. We give them a uniform with local numbers and numbers are put on their cages and written on paper on the wall. We do not weigh them when they arrive.
(2) Issue the EPW a completed DA Form 2662-R (EPW Identity Card), if an EPW does not hold an identity card issued by his or her government,.
A: No.
(3) Prepare DA Form 2663-R (Fingerprint Card) in duplicate for each EPW/RP?
A: Yes
(4) Provide prisoners with humane treatment, health and welfare items, quarters, food, clothing, and medical care.
A: Yes
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(5) Provide for morale, religious, intellectual, educational, social, physical and
recreational activities for the prisoners.
A:
No books, magazines, no talking. We do allow them to have a Koran.
(6) Allow prisoners to correspond with their families and receive relief shipments.
A:
No letters or care packages are allowed.
(7) Provide prisoners copies of the 1949 Geneva Conventions (in their own
language, if possible).
A:
N/A
(8) Provide command and control, and operate, administer, and secure the camp.
A:
Yes
(9) Provide the initial medical examination and monthly screening of prisoners.
A:
No weighing, no cavity search, no tuberculosis test.
(10) Provide initial reports of and perform initial investigation and inquiries into prisoner labor injuries or incidents.
A: No injuries while in the facility: If we had an injury we would photograph of the injuries received prior to entering the facility.
(11) Report allegations of criminal acts or war crimes committed by or against EPW/RP to the supporting element of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC).
A: Yes, to CID and CITF both.
(12) Establish and maintain complete and accurate accountability information regarding the location, physical and legal status, of all individuals in the custody of, or assigned to the EPW facility?
A:
The Sergeant of the Guard (SOG) board in the command operations center. It includes medications they need and other special needs for example dietary needs.
(15) Provide an area for intelligence collection efforts?
A:
Yes, an Isolation cell.
(16) Are the Geneva Conventions will be posted within the camp in the language(s) of the EPW/RP nation(s)? AR 190-8 para 3-4a
A: N/A
Q: ARE EPW/RP provided sundry/health and comfort packs, which may be supplemented with items tailored to their cultural needs? AR 190-8 para 3-4h.
A: We provide soap, toilet paper, toothbrush, and toothpaste.
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Q: Do EPW/RP have access, day and night, to latrines that conform to the rules of
hygiene and are maintained in a constant state of cleanliness? AR 190-8 para 3-4i(1)
A: Yes, they are provided a bucket. We have ordered stainless steel prison toilets to go in the new facility when we move to the other side of the airfield.
Q: In any camps in which women EPW/RP are accommodated, are separate latrines
provided for them? AR 190-8 para 3-4i(1)
A: No females. However, she would get her own bucket.
Does the detainee camp commander maintain records of disciplinary punishment? AR
190-8 para 3-6 And are the following act prohibited?
Yes X No N/A (1) Fraternization between EPW, RP and U.S.
military or civilian personnel. Fraternization is defined as improper or intimate
communications or actions between U.S. Armed Forces personnel and EPW/RP.
Yes X No N/A (2) Donating or receiving gifts or engaging in
any commercial activity between persons in U.S. custody and U.S. personnel.
Q: Does the detainee camp commander seize political emblems, insignias, flags, and
pictures of political leaders?
A: Yes. They are not authorized personal effects. Not allowed to have anything.
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Q: Are medical inspections of EPW/RP will be held at least once a month, where each
detainee will be weighed and the weight recorded on DA Form 2664-R (Weight
Register)? AR 190-8 para 3-4i(1)
A: Yes, the Physician's Assistant is here almost every other day.
Q: Does the detainee camp commander ensure that each EPW/RP understands the meaning of the English word "halt"?
A: No.
Yes X No N/A Does the detainee camp commander aware of the following authorized disciplinary measures? AR 190-8 para 3-7 Yes ___X_ No N/A (1) Suspend or eliminate privileges granted over and above the minimum privileges provided for in the GPW and GC.
A: We suspend items such as mattress, ICRC books, no physical training, and no hot food.
Yes X No N/A (2) Confinement.
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A: Can put into isolation. Yes No N/A _ X____ (3) Fatigue duties not exceeding 2 hours
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daily. This punishment will not be applied to officers. ____ ____ N/A
Yes X No (5) In no case will disciplinary punishments be inhumane, brutal, or dangerous to the person's health. The length of a single disciplinary punishment will not exceed 30 days.
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2. POC is the undersigned at
MAJ, IG CJTF 180 Inspector General