Estonian Security Police and SD

{{Short description|Security police force created by the Nazis in 1942 in occupied Estonia}}

{{For| the security institution of the Republic of Estonia|Kaitsepolitsei}}

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The Estonian Security Police and SD ({{langx|de|Sicherheitspolizei und SD Estland}}, {{langx|et|Eesti Julgeolekupolitsei ja SD}}), or Sipo, was a security police force created by the Germans in 1942 that integrated both Germans and Estonians within a unique structure mirroring the German Sicherheitspolizei.{{cite journal| author = Birn, Ruth Bettina| authorlink = Ruth Bettina Birn|year = 2001 | title = Collaboration with Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe: the Case of the Estonian Security Police|journal=Contemporary European History| volume = 10 | issue =2 | pages=181–198 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | doi =10.1017/S0960777301002016 | s2cid = 143520561}}

Following the German occupation in 1941, the German Army created police Prefekts based upon the old Estonian police model. In 1942 a new Sicherheitspolizei structure was installed. The new Sipo force was designed by Martin Sandberger, leader of Einsatzkommando 1a. It was a unique joint structure that consisted of a German component called "Group A" with departments A-I to A-V and an Estonian component called "Group B" with corresponding departments. The Estonian Sipo wore the same uniforms as their German counterparts, and attended Sipo schools in the Reich.