No state in the world - neither the most liberal nor the ultra-totalitarian - can do without the police. Crime has always existed, and any society has needed and will always need bodies designed to protect order, property, life and safety of citizens. The authors of this book analyze the specifics of law enforcement agencies in the USSR and Germany in the pre-war period, determine the role and place of the auxiliary police in the system of the "new order" in the occupied territories of the RSFSR.