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RMP leave Chichester

The Royal Military Police are to leave their spiritual home in Chichester and march to Southwick Park, Portsmouth, to become the first element of a new tri-service Defence Police College.

The Redcaps will march from Roussillon Barracks, Chichester, to the former HMS Dryad on 27 September 2005, but before that they will exercise their ?Freedom of the City? by marching past the medieval Market Cross on Saturday 10 September. This Freedom Parade will be the first part of a formal farewell to the city.

RMP on paradeMore than 300 regular Royal Military Police soldiers and officers will be joined by members of the TA, Associations, Veterans and Chelsea Pensioners.

After the Parade, there will be a service of dedication at the RMP chapel at Roussillon Barracks to commemorate the veterans of the Egypt Campaign of 1951-54. This will be followed by a ceremonial Beating Retreat.

ust over two weeks later, the Provost Marshal will lead 50 officers and soldiers on the18-mile final march out of Roussillon Barracks to the new Defence Police College at Southwick Park, outside Portsmouth. It is planned that there will be a symbolic handing over of authority from the Chief Constable of Sussex to the Chief Constable of Hampshire at the border of the two counties.