Department of General police

Department of General police

of Belgrade city administration

Carried out duties of political police and territorial counter-intelligence service in Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Belgrade city administration had 5 departments: administrative, general police, criminal police, traffic police and technical police. In Department of General police tasks were grouped by sections (odsecima) which were further divided into subsections: "odeljke" and "referate". It carried out discovering and suppressing of all activities which threatened constitutional order - combat against communists, intelligence and counter-intelligence duties, and each section carried out investigations according to its tasks.

Tasks were divided by sections:

I administrative - taking care of archive and register and administrative police tasks

II political - carrying out control of legally registered political organizations and associations

III counter-intelligence - controlling activities of foreign diplomatic-consular and other representative bodies in Belgrade over 5 subsections:

Bulgarian-Albanian

Hungarian

Italian

German

subsection for other countries

IV had two subsections:

Socialist - controlling activities of worker unions and other associations

Marxist - worked on discovering and suppressing of activities of illegal organizations Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY/KPJ) and Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ).

V - was assigned to press and censorship

VI central registration office with 3 subsections

register of Yugoslav citizens

register of foreign citizens

issuing of identification papers

VII agents - carried out bodyguard duties of state officials

VIII keeping files on individuals for needs of department

After Kingdom of Yugoslavia defeat in April 1941 and occupation this department continued its work under directives of German occupational authority - Military Commander of Serbia, form middle of 1941 it was renamed into Department of Special Police.

Department was mostly engaged in combat against CPY in which its members showed brutality against arrested communists and later activists People's Liberation Movement (NOP).

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