[1] The regional and local organizations included: In 1936, the RKPA was formed after the Prussian central criminal investigation department (Landeskriminalpolizeiamt) became the national criminal investigation department for Germany.
The RKPA was merged, along with the secret state police, the Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo as two sub-branch departments of the SiPo.
[6] The Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei was officially abolished and its departments were folded into the RSHA.
The Reichskriminalpolizeiamt became Amt V (Department V), the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) in the RSHA.
[1] On 15 August 1944, Friedrich Panzinger took over as chief of Amt V in the RSHA until the end of the war in Europe.