On 24 June 1941, the Provisional Government recreated the pre-war Ministry of Internal Affairs with three departments – State Security, Police, and Prisons.
Instead, on 25 July 1941, they established a civil administration known as Generalbezirk Litauen under Generalkommissar Adrian von Renteln, and dissolved the Provisional Government on 5 August 1941.
But they found the police and intelligence agencies created in the transitional period useful and incorporated them into the German security system.
His deputy assistants were head of the Security Police Kazys Matulis and his personal secretary Vytenis Stasiškis.
In the first months of German occupation, the Communist Commissariat of the Vilnius branch, headed by Juozas Bagdonis, was especially active.
[4] As the war continued, the focus shifted to operations against Soviet partisans and the Polish resistance, particularly active in eastern Lithuania.
[4] LSP officers in major cities would most often study more complicated cases of political and strategic character, and so did not directly participate in mass killings of Jews.
[4] At the end of the war many members of the Lithuanian Security Police fled to Western Europe, notably to Germany.
[6] In 1955, the former commander of its Vilnius branch, Aleksandras Lileikis, emigrated to the United States, where he obtained citizenship, of which he was stripped in 1996.
[10] Lileikis gave interviews to the press and published a memoir Pažadinto laiko pėdsakais (ISBN 9789986847281) in which he denied any wrongdoing.
[4] Kazys Gimžauskas, Lileikis' deputy, returned to Lithuania after US authorities began to investigate him in 1996, and was convicted in 2001 of participation in genocide.
[11] In 2006, Algimantas Dailidė was convicted in Lithuania of persecuting and arresting two Poles and 12 Jews while he was a member of Lithuanian Security Police.