The NATO MP COE, the organiser of the Workshop, managed to assemble a competent team representing 10 different nations bringing consolidated experience gained from international operations and missions: Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central Africa, Iraq, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, etc.
The event started with a short brief, prepared by the German representatives, about the incident which took place in Kabul on 5th August 2014. In this green-on-blue attack (aggression of an Afghan policeman/soldier on coalition forces) the 2-star US General Harold GREENE was killed. German representatives, who originally initiated the Workshop by sending the Request for Support to the NATO MP COE, explained details of the attack and presented their observations, Lessons Identified (LI) and Lessons Learned (LL). The briefing was followed by a long series of questions and thorough discussion among all participants.
The Workshop attendees were also briefed on the Centre’s prime tasks and challenges for 2016, and the introduction to the current state of Close Protection within NATO Doctrines was given by the NATO MP COE representative. Eventually, all nations shared their native observations, LI and LL, as well as various backgrounds within their forces and key issues which needed to be further examined. Subsequently, deliberations within syndicate groups started, they were followed by the presentation of results during plenary sessions, which led to long discussions afterwards. This form of work predominantly continued for another two days.
During those evaluations, several topics were considered and developed: multinational liaison, coordination and communication, planning and execution phase of CP events, a need for a single Point of Contact (POC), security and action concept.

Outcomes of the Workshop were summarised on the last day of the event, i.e.: rewriting of Allied Tactical Publication 3.7.2 (ATP), template of SOP, need for training and developing an Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) course on CP, as well as the need for continuous work on CP issues. Therefore, it was decided that the event will become an annual initiative. The NATO MP COE, as a hub of Military Police, assured international team that all solutions and proposals which were developed, drafted and formulated during the event, shall be passed to the strategic level of MP COI and MP Panel. Eventually, LTC Tobias EKMAN from Sweden summarised the Workshop: “During this 3-day event, we went much further on CP issues than we did separately at a national level in previous years. This place made this possible”. NATO MP COE is multinationaly sponsored organisation that provides NATO with a tool to enhance interoperability in the following specific areas: Doctrine and Concept Development, Education and Training, Research and Development, Analysis and Lesson Learned as well as Consultation. MP COE’s main objective is to develop the universal platform for expertise, experiment, launch, development and dissemination of products for Alliance’s troops at every level.