File:WW2 Norway. Hauptmann der SP; Ordnungspolizei uniform sleeve badge. Eisernes Kreuz 2. Kl., Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges 1914-1918, Dienstauszeichnung für Treue Dienste in der Polizei etc Justismuseet Trondheim 2019 3146.jpg

English: Police uniforms and misc. items from the German occupation of Norway during World War II 1940 – 1945, on display in the exhibitions of Norwegian National Museum of Justice in Trondheim, Norway (Norwegian: Justismuseet (i det tidligere Kriminalasylet). Photo taken in April 2019.

• Captain of the German police in Norway (Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei, kaptein i det tyske ordenpolitiet). The military and civil service decorations on the tunic breast are: Iron Cross 2nd class (Eisernes Kreuz 2. Kl.) ribbon in buttonhole, The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges 1914-1918), Police Long Service Award (Dienstauszeichnung für Treue Dienste in der Polizei), and Wound Badge (Verwundetenabzeichen)
  
  

In 1936 the Police of Nazi Germany was organised under SS, the Nazi Party's elite units lead by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. At the break of war in September 1939, large parts of the police forces mobilized as Kazernierte Polizei, militarized "Barracked Police". After the the German invasion of Norway on April 9th, 1940, several police regiments were deployed to Norway. Some of them came from the notorious Einsatz-Kommandos on the Eastern Front, where they had committed exstensive war crimes. In Trondheim, the German police formed the 1st Battalion of the SS-Polizei-regiment 7.

The uniformed police of Schutzpolizei, Gendarmerie, and Gemeindepolizei was organised under the Ordnungspolizei.

The Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) was the"security police"; the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) the "security service". The SiPo was made up by the combined forces of the Gestapo (secret state police) and the Kriminalpolizei (criminal police; Kripo); as a formal agency, SiPo was folded into the RSHA in 1939, but the term continued to be used informally until the end of World War II in Europe.

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