The military structure is real governance, not branding. The General is elected by a High Council composed of senior officers and holds international authority; territories are led by commanders appointed from International Headquarters in London; officers hold rank, are appointed to their posts rather than called by a congregation, and are moved on a cycle. Officer training runs two years at a training college, after which officers are commissioned and ordained. This is the most centralised polity of any body in this family and it is what allowed a Whitechapel mission to be operating in 134 countries within a century. It is also the structure that the Australian Royal Commission examined when it looked at how boys homes were supervised, and its findings on the inadequacy of that supervision are recorded on this page.