Military Police
“Serve the king”
The Military Police keep order in the interior and serve the royalty directly. Only the ten best cadets of each class may aspire to its ranks.
Far from the front, they enjoy privileges the rest of Attack on Titan never knows — which does not always make them the most upright. Their emblem is the unicorn.
Also known as Military Police Brigade · Military Police Regiment
- Base
- Interior · Capital Mitras
- Role
- Order & royal authority
- Type
- Military regiment
The record
Role in the story
What the Military Police is
The Military Police is the branch stationed in the interior, farthest from the wall that faces outward. It keeps civil order in the inner districts, polices the army itself, and serves the royal government directly.
Only the ten highest-ranked cadets of each graduating class may enter it. That single rule shapes everything else about the regiment: it is simultaneously the most selective branch in the army and the one where the least is asked of you afterwards.
Mission and method
On paper the job is order: patrols, arrests, customs at the inner gates, and the tribunals where soldiers are tried. In practice the interior has no Titans and very little crime that anyone with power wants solved, so the work drifts towards paperwork, protection and the quiet management of embarrassments.
It is also the branch that holds the army accountable to the crown rather than the other way round. When the government wants a regiment investigated, dissolved or brought to trial, this is the instrument it reaches for.
How it is organised
A commander answers upward to the army's supreme command and, less formally but far more decisively, to the government in the capital. Below him the regiment splits into district units and into specialised squads whose remit is not written down anywhere a soldier can read.
That second category is the part of the branch that matters. Some of its units answer to the crown rather than to the regiment, which means a Military Police uniform can cover two entirely different jobs — and the person wearing it may not know which one the man beside them has.
Why it matters in the story
The Military Police is the story's argument about what safety costs. Every cadet who reaches the top ten is offered the same deal: a life where nothing will ever try to eat you, in exchange for serving the arrangement that made the walls what they are.
Most take it, and the series is careful not to treat that as simple cowardice. It is also the branch that shows the reader that the danger inside the walls was never only the Titans — the interior has its own machinery, and it does not need a breach to hurt someone.
The regiment
Hierarchy and members
0 revealed · 6 sealed
Turning points
Key events
0 revealed · 5 sealed
On the map
Headquarters and key places
1 revealed · 3 sealed
Standing
Relations with other factions
0 revealed · 4 sealed
Across the story
How the faction changes
0 revealed · 4 sealed
Common questions
Frequently asked
What is the Military Police in Attack on Titan?
It is the branch of the military stationed in the interior. It keeps order in the inner districts, polices the army itself and serves the royal government directly, far from the wall that faces the Titans.
How do you join the Military Police?
By finishing in the top ten of your graduating class in the Cadet Corps. It is the only branch with a rank requirement, and the only one a cadet cannot simply choose.
Why do cadets want to join the Military Police?
Because it is the only posting that guarantees a life away from the Titans, with better rations, better quarters and a career that does not end in an expedition. For a recruit from a poor district it is the single largest improvement in prospects available to them.
What is the Military Police emblem?
A unicorn — an animal nobody inside the walls has ever seen, which is a fairly pointed choice for the branch that lives farthest from anything real.
Is the Military Police corrupt?
Large parts of it, yes. A branch posted where nothing threatens it, holding authority over civilians and answerable to a government that prefers quiet, drifts into extortion and cover-ups — though the series also gives it soldiers who joined for the security and then refuse to look away.
What is the difference between the Military Police and the Garrison?
The Garrison defends the walls and lives in the districts pressed against them; the Military Police keeps order in the interior and answers to the crown. One is the largest branch and takes anyone, the other is the smallest posting and takes only the top ten.
Other factions
All 6 members of Military Police — spoilers
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Complete roster: Military Police
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Complete arc
The court that decides
The regiment's first real appearance is not a patrol but a prosecution: at the military tribunal it argues for removing a problem rather than using it. From here the reader stops reading the Military Police as "the safe posting" and starts reading it as an interest with a position.
A battle in its own streets
Stohess drags the branch into a fight in the one place it was posted to never have one. The interior takes casualties, its own civilians die, and the regiment discovers that being far from the wall was never the same thing as being out of reach.
The crown's hand
When the government moves against a regiment of its own army, the Military Police is the instrument it uses — and the units doing the work turn out to answer somewhere other than the chain of command printed on the paperwork.
What the uniform was hiding
The branch's inner arms are exposed for what they were: not police at all, but the private muscle of an arrangement much older than the regiment. What is left afterwards has to work out whether the uniform can mean something else.
Relations with other factions
- High Command — It sits under the army's supreme command like the other two regiments, and supplies the courts where that command tries its soldiers.
- Monarchy — Its real chain of command runs to the government in the capital, which is why an order can reach one of its squads without ever passing through the army at all.
- Cadet Corps — Only the ten highest-ranked cadets of a graduating class may enter, which makes the branch the prize the training years are quietly organised around.
- Survey Corps — The two branches want opposite things from the same recruits and from the same government, and they say so in court rather than behind each other's backs.
