  Confinement via 't Hooft-Mandelstam monopoles is studied for the positive
plaquette model in SU(2) lattice gauge theory. Positive plaquette model
configurations are projected into the maximum abelian gauge and the magnetic
current extracted. The resulting magnetic current is used to compute monopole
contributions to Wilson loops and extract a monopole contribution to the string
tension. As was previously found for the Wilson action, the monopole
contribution to the string tension agrees with the string tension calculated
directly from the SU(2) links. The fact that the positive plaquette model
suppresses Z2 monopoles and vortices is discussed.
