IOR/R/15/2/578

The file relates to the question of whether or not to use United States Army Provost personnel to police American workers at the Bahrein Petroleum Company [Bahrain Petroleum Company] (BAPCO) in Bahrain [also referred to as Bahrein], especially in view of an expected influx of Refinery construction workers in 1943. The papers include correspondence from the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Bahrain Petroleum Company; the India Office, London; and the Government of India.

The file includes:

• papers relating to an affray involving Americans and members of the Bahrain Special Police at the main Refinery gate on the night of 17-18 June 1944, June-July 1944;
• papers relating to an incident in Manama on 11 August 1944 involving four American soldiers and members of the Bahrain State Police, August 1944;
• minutes of a meeting held at the Bahrain Political Agency on 4 October 1944 to discuss the employment of Special Policemen to carry out policing duties in connection with the Bahrain Petroleum Company;
• papers relating to the possible employment in a policing capacity in Bahrain of ex-National Fire Service men from the United Kingdom, August 1944;
• papers relating to the use of members of the British Corps of Military Police (CMP) as Special Police Officers within the limits of the Bahrain Order in Council, October 1944 - March 1945.