REORGANIZATION OF THE EAST GERMAN CRIMINAL POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000330007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION P%Dr
CENTRAL. II~'i'~,L1G ARAW
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany
t1I3JECT Reorfan3,zatton of the last German Criminal
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Police
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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reorganized into four divisions. The reorganization was to have been made
effective: by 31 January. 1~53. the CrirninO. Police 25X1
reorganization is to ma ?e that body conipara le in. structure rLnd in the
tasks of its divisions o the Hanaptverwwalt?ung der, deutschen Voikspo .!.zei
(stain Administra.tion4, Peolle''s Police) (r=mvP)? the Bezirksaenter der
c.eutschen Volksuolizei 'B ziirk Off ces, P(eoplels Police) (%iDVP) and the
?T?):i.zs:sooi ze_i. Kreisaemt ;r (creis '.)ffices, eop:1.e"s Police) VPK4'?,
mile four t ivisi.ons unde ^ the new of ct'anizotion and their fury ti,Dns a."e
,Si i ion for th TM w~rc ec do l of Sf,r i a re property- t 1 hya? ged with
teat: protection against dwnage of st&,te azrd 4?orraiir~nal. property and of
property be'iongi_t?; to reconomics, bu-s`,reei and cultur^a or-gr3niz at ions.
.also to guars ags.:1_:!1st W.olatioa'!s cf economic Statutes.
General Grii,-dnal Jzvision: Is to uarcz against all c:ime-r directed
:Y ;[dinst the .3tate and economic and 1'.u. ".ural :;?rganizations also
to watch for fires and exp.o: ioris , it is also respou ib3_e for the
prevention of cri.:lies cirec"t.ect againit the 1:.Je,; happ'k.nesa, honor
arid dignity of the f "t i.zen:.:, as well as against private and personal
property,
Cr. minal,tec hn:ic:al Division: Responsible for the establishment and
,ec:.urity of objective evidence, the economic investigation and the
epa.ration of cases eagaint+t criminals
Apprehension ivision: Charged with the dire--ti ora of all arrest
n,ct ions of the I'c:opl.e ? s Police which deal. +.i-,h persons o-? things o
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