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The Main Force Patrol (MFP) was the fictional Australian Federal Police special task force depicted in Mad Max. The purpose of the MFP was to support the regular police in combatting organized crime, especially savage, motorized criminal biker gangs and marauding punks, and act as a highway patrol on the Transcontinental Highways.

Contents 1 History 2 Known MFP personnel 3 See also 4 External links

HistoryEdit

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After uprisings due to energy shortages which destabilized the country, biker gangs and punks began to terrorize the townspeople in the Outback. The crumbling remnants of the government created a tiny, underfunded group of special highway patrol officers to try and restore order to the outback highways. The MFP's "top pursuit man" is young Max Rockatansky, a highly skilled driver, and drives one of two Pursuit Special vehicles owned by the MFP. At the start of Mad Max we see him driving a yellow (1975 XB Ford Falcon) "Interceptor".

However, it is quite evident throughout Mad Max, that the MFP is poorly funded and run down. Captain Fifi McAfee is worried that Rockatansky wants out, and so tempts him to stay with the MFP (by desperately begging for funds from Police Commissioner Labatouche) by having a special supercharged, 600 horse power black "Pursuit Special" (A much modified XB GT Coupe) built for him, in order to "suduce him with candy".

The typical uniform of the MFP is all black leather. Civilian slang for MFP officers is "Bronze", due to the bronze badges they wear. A memorandum overheard in the Halls of Justice actively discourages this nickname, suggesting "Bronze" is considered a "pejorative" term.

The MFP operate out of a dilapidated complex of buildings known as the Halls of Justice, and their practices and methods appear to be mostly unorthodox if not unethical – prisoners (for example) are generally shackled, while police officers use sawn-off shotguns – although this may simply be a symptom of the decay of society, law, and morality as a whole. At one point McAfee tells his officers that: "So long as the paperwork's clean, you boys can do what you like out there." This possibly explains why the MFP don't pursue Max after he goes on his vengeful rampage; although radio messages do mention a rogue officer taking the super-charged Pursuit Special.

In Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, there is a much more pronounced breakdown of civilization. In the prologue, a narrator tells us that the world has "crumbled and...the cities have exploded" in a "whirlwind of looting and a firestorm of fear, in which men began to feed on men". Some of Lord Humongous's biker gang raiders appear to be wearing worn-out MFP uniforms. This leads to one of two conclusions, the first being that the attire is stolen from the corpses for former MFP members, and the second suggesting that, after the fall of law & order, those formally sworn to uphold the law have themselves become lawless. Though it is never mentioned and only loosely inferred by the break down in society, the lack of any technology, it brings to mind that a limited "nuclear" exchange between the "two mighty warrior tribes" as described by the narrator at the beginning of the movie may have occured. This is later confirmed in Mad Max 3 when the "children" refer to the "poxyclipse".....

In Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome, which takes place quite some time after the events of the previous film (given Max's even more weathered and torn uniform), the MFP are not even mentioned. This suggests that the MFP no longer exist and that law & order has completely disappeared from the Outback by this time. When asked who he was before the nuclear war, Max merely replies he "was a cop", to surprise from others, suggesting that there are not many, if any, former lawmen around.

Known MFP personnelEdit

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• Max Rockatansky
• Jim Goose
• Roop
• Charlie
• Sarse
• Scuttle
• Fifi MacAffee
• Labatouche

See also Edit

• Pursuit Special
• Max Rockatansky

External linksEdit

• Main Force Patrol a fansite
• Another fansite
• Roadwar 151 site
• MFP Clothing Branch: Japanese fansite