---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 151.4"
title: "32"
number: "151.4"
heading: "Policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/151.4"
---

# §151.4. Policy.

- (a) The Department of Defense will, for dependents of DoD personnel when those dependents are in a foreign country accompanying DoD personnel who are assigned duty to that foreign country:
  - (1) Maximize the exercise of U.S. jurisdiction to the extent permissible under applicable status of forces agreements or other forms of jurisdiction arrangements.
  - (2) Protect, to the maximum extent possible, the rights of dependents of DoD personnel who may be subject to criminal trial by foreign courts and imprisonment in foreign prisons.
  - (3) Secure, where possible, the release of an accused to the custody of U.S. authorities pending completion of all foreign judicial proceedings.
- (b) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 10 U.S.C. chapter 47, 10 U.S.C. 1037.

### Source

Source: 84 FR 18384, May 1, 2019, unless otherwise noted.