The regiment was destroyed in January 1943 and its personnel was used to reconstitute it in Norway several months later from existing police units.

The regiment was transferred to Italy in late 1943 and remained there for the rest of the war.

[1] Between 29 October and 1 November, 10 Company of the Third Battalion helped to liquidate the ghetto in Pinsk, Belarus,[2] killing an estimated 20,000 Jews.

The regiment was ordered to be rebuilt in Norway on 29 March 1943 with the survivors consolidated into I and II Battalions.

The regiment has been implicated in twenty-six incidents of war crimes in Italy from December 1943 to February 1945 with almost 200 civilians killed.