It was redesignated as the 23rd Police Regiment in mid-1942 before it received the SS title in early 1943.

[1] The invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, in June 1941 created a need for rear-area security units in Army Group Rear Areas and Police Regiment Kraków provided some of these.

They were partially replaced by worn-out units returning from the occupied Soviet Union.

The III Battalion helped suppress the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April–May 1943.

II Battalion was disbanded in November 1944 and the rest of the regiment followed in March 1945.