Editing General Government (section)

===Policing===
The police in the General Government was divided into:

*''[[Ordnungspolizei]]'' (OrPo) (native German)
*the [[Blue Police]] (Polish under German control)
*''[[Sicherheitspolizei]]'' (native German) composed of:
**''[[Kriminalpolizei]]'' (German)
**[[Gestapo]] (German)

The most numerous [[Ordnungspolizei#Police Battalions|OrPo battalions]] focused on traditional security roles as an occupying force. Some of them were directly involved in [[Pacification actions in German-occupied Poland|the pacification operations]].<ref name="Browning2007">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jHQdRHNdK44C&q=%22Bloody+Sunday%22 |title=The Origins of the Final Solution |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |date=1 May 2007 |access-date=4 December 2014 |author=Christopher R. Browning |pages=349, 361 |isbn=978-0803203921 |id=Google eBook |author-link=Christopher R. Browning}}</ref> In the immediate aftermath of World War II, this latter role was obscured both by the lack of court evidence and by deliberate obfuscation, while most of the focus was on the better-known ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' ("Operational groups") who reported to [[Reichssicherheitshauptamt|RSHA]] led by [[Reinhard Heydrich]].<ref>Hillberg, Raul, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=HinIpmliz2MC The Destruction of the European Jews]'', Holmes & Meir: NY, NY, 1985, pp 100–106.</ref> On 6&nbsp;May 1940 ''Gauleiter'' Hans Frank, stationed in occupied [[Kraków]], established the ''[[Sonderdienst]]'', based on similar ''[[SS]]'' formations called ''[[Selbstschutz]]'' operating in the [[Reichsgau Wartheland|''Warthegau'']] district of German-annexed western part of Poland since 1939.<ref name="Yad Vashem">{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcDXaeukt4sC&q=Sonderdienst |title=Yad Vashem Studies |publisher=Wallstein Verlag |year=2001 |access-date= 12 May 2014 |author=The Erwin and Riva Baker Memorial Collection |journal=Yad Washem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance |pages=57–58 |issn=0084-3296}}</ref> ''Sonderdienst'' were made up of ethnic German ''[[Volksdeutsche]]'' who lived in Poland before the attack and joined the invading force thereafter. However, after the 1941 [[Operation Barbarossa]] they included also the Soviet [[prisoners of war]] who volunteered for special training, such as the "[[Trawniki men]]" (German: ''Trawnikimänner'') deployed at all major killing sites of the "[[Final Solution]]". A lot of those men did not know German and required translation by their native commanders.<ref name="Browning">{{cite web |url=http://hampshirehigh.com/exchange2012/docs/BROWNING-Ordinary%20Men.%20Reserve%20Police%20Battalion%20101%20and%20the%20Final%20Solution%20in%20Poland%20(1992).pdf |last=Browning |first=Christopher R. |author-link=Christopher Browning |orig-year=1992 |year=1998 |title=Arrival in Poland |publisher=Penguin Books |work=Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland |access-date=May 1, 2013 |pages=51, 98, 109, 124 |format=PDF file, direct download 7.91 MB complete|archive-date=October 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019043400/http://hampshirehigh.com/exchange2012/docs/BROWNING-Ordinary%20Men.%20Reserve%20Police%20Battalion%20101%20and%20the%20Final%20Solution%20in%20Poland%20(1992).pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Black">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7KbsHLnbwgC&q=Hamburg%2C++Karl++Streibel&pg=PA331 |title=Police Auxiliaries for Operation Reinhard ''by'' Peter R. Black |publisher=Enigma Books |work=Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust |year=2006 |access-date=2013-06-02 |editor=David Bankir |pages=331–348 |isbn=192963160X |format=Google Books |archive-date=2023-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317071120/https://books.google.com/books?id=M7KbsHLnbwgC&q=Hamburg%2C++Karl++Streibel&pg=PA331 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|366}} [[Ukrainian Auxiliary Police]] was formed in Distrikt Galizien in 1941, many policemen deserted in 1943 joining UPA.

The former Polish policemen, with no high-ranking Polish officers (who were arrested or demoted), were drafted to the [[Blue Police]] and became subordinated to the local [[Ordnungspolizei]].

Some 3,000 men served with the ''Sonderdienst'' in the General Government, formally assigned to the head of the civil administration.<ref name="Browning"/> The existence of ''Sonderdienst'' constituted a grave danger for the non-Jewish Poles who [[Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust|attempted to help ghettoised Jews]] in the cities, as in the [[Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto]] among numerous others, because Christian Poles were executed under the charge of aiding Jews.<ref name="Yad Vashem"/>

A [[Forest Protection Service]] also existed, responsible for policing wooded areas in the General Government.<ref name="benz">{{cite book |last1=Benz |first1=Wolfgang |title=Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus |date=1997 |publisher=Klett-Cotta |isbn=3423330074}}</ref>

A Bahnpolizei policed railroads.

The Germans used pre-war Polish prisons and organised new ones, like in Jan Chrystian Schuch Avenue police quarter in Warsaw and [[Under the Clock]] torture centre in [[Lublin]].

German administration constructed a terror system to control Polish people enforcing reports of any illegal activities, e.g. hiding Roma, POWs, guerilla fighters, Jews. Germans designated hostages, terrorised local leaders, applied collective responsibility. German police used [[sting operations]] to find and kill rescuers of the Germans' quarries.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/37783353 |first=Tomasz |last=Frydel |chapter=''Judenjagd'': Reassessing the Role of Ordinary Poles as Perpetrators in the Holocaust |editor-first=Timothy |editor-last=Williams |editor2-first=Susanne |editor2-last=Buckley-Zistel |title=Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics |location=London |publisher=Routledge |year=2018 |pages=187–203 |access-date=2019-05-15 |archive-date=2022-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314132350/https://www.academia.edu/37783353 |url-status=live }}</ref>