Polish Criminal Police

The Polish Criminal Police (Polish: Polska Policja Kryminalna) was a non-uniformed, armed and secret formation of auxiliary police, colloquially called “Polish Kripo”, active in the years 1940-1945 in the General Government during the German occupation of Poland.

[2] The commander of German Sipo and SD in the General Government, Eberhard Schöngarth, issued a decree ordering all pre-war Polish criminal police officers to report for duty or face execution.

[3] The Polish criminal police team was trained at the Security Police School (Sicherheitspolizei) and the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) in Rabka-Zdrój.

It's estimated that there were between 1,790 to 2,800 ethnic Poles in the Polish Kripo units.

[4] The organization of the Polish Criminal Police was analogous to the organization of the German “Kriminalpolizei" and consisted of various police stations.