What does SP stand for?

Shore Patrol (US Navy equivalent to MP)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The government had approved 55 new sea craft and 45 aircraft for the Coast Guard, but only one off- shore patrol vessel and two interceptor boats have been added to its fleet till now.

More needed on the security revamp front

North Tyneside magistrates heard that on June 12, while carrying out a routine shore patrol, fishery officers saw Arkle landing the lobsters from the rocks at Newbiggin.

Fine for fishing

SBA authorities say they have taken measures to rectify the problem, including increasing shore patrols by the SBA Maritime Unit and asking community leaders to be vigilant against illegal dumping at sea.

SBAs taking pollution 'extremely seriously'

Byline: Mark Yuasa; Seattle Times staff reporter The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and other groups are inviting the public to participate in Operation Shore Patrol Days, an ocean and inner-waterway beach cleanup Sept.

Want to make our beaches cleaner? Sign up for shore patrol Sept. ...

Why do we have MPs and Shore Patrol if each military reservation and naval base and air base has its own civilian police department?

America's plethora of police

In one frightening incident, a German shore patrol boat happened upon her boat where some Jews were hidden under tarps.

She charmed Nazis into leaking secrets; Evelyn Hamilton: rescuer of ...

The 701st also formed a liaison with the Navy Shore Patrol, the 23d Gendarmerie Regiment (English-speaking Chinese trained as policemen), and the Shanghai Voluntary Police (businessmen who volunteered to combat crime).

701st Military Police Battalion

Driving the navy blue long-wheelbase Defender, a totally utilitarian vehicle in the same colour as a Royal Navy shore patrol, I was astonished ( until I got my head round the fact that this was the preferred vehicle of the true Brit countryside, and has been since the original rolled out in 1948.

Defender and hero of the road