24th SS Police Regiment

The 24th SS Police Regiment (German: SS-Polizei-Regiment 24) was initially named Police Regiment Radom (Polizei-Regiment Radom) when it was formed in late 1939 after the German invasion of Poland from existing Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) units for security duties there.

It was redesignated as the 24th Police Regiment in mid-1942 before it received the SS title in early 1943.

[1] The invasion of Russia in June 1941 created a need for rear-area security units on the Eastern Front and Police Regiment Radom provided some of these.

Police Battalion 93 in Slovenia was redesignated as III Battalion, but this was strictly nominal as it remained in Slovenia until it was transferred as Marseilles, France, as a part of Police Regiment Griese in January 1943.

The regiment was transferred to Belarus in May 1943 and was reformed in mid-November 1944 after having been destroyed during Operation Bagration.