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Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft
Insignia of the Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft
Active	April 1955 – October 1990
Country	German Democratic Republic
Size	12,000–15,000
Part of	Volkspolizei
Garrison/HQ	East Berlin

The Volkspolizei-Bereitschaften^[1] (VPB, German for "People's Police Alert Units", sometimes known as "Barracked People’s Police" or "Alert Police"^[2]) was the paramilitary police force of the Volkspolizei of the German Democratic Republic The VPB were organized as Internal Troops like in many Warsaw Pact countries and served as a riot police and gendarmerie-like force. The VPB functioned as the de facto armed branch of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi). Though considered part of the armed forces, the VPB was never part of the National People's Army or the Ministry of National Defence, instead under the Ministry of the Interior.

Organization

The German Democratic Republic's Ministry of the Interior (German: Ministerium des Innern, or MdI) maintained the independent Department of the Alert Units of the Volkspolizei known as the Volkspolizei-Bereitschaften (VPB). It consisted of between 12,000 and 15,000 men in 21 Volkspolizei Alert Units of battalion strength.

There was usually one unit per district of East Germany, but the key districts of Halle, Leipzig and Magdeburg, with their large working class populations, and Potsdam all had two units.

The Presidium of the People's Police in East Berlin had three units located in Basdorf.

Each Alert unit was organized as follows:

Headquarters section
Four alert companies:
- One mechanized company in wheeled armoured personnel carriers
- Three motorized companies in trucks
Support company
- Anti-tank platoon with three 45 mm/57 mm anti-tank guns (later ATGMs)
- Artillery platoon with three 76.2 mm ZiS-3 field/anti-tank guns
- Mortar platoon with three 82 mm mortars
Headquarters and staff company with:
- signals platoon
- engineer platoon
- chemical platoon
- reconnaissance platoon
- transport platoon
- supply platoon
- control section
- medical section

Equipment

These units were equipped with light and medium infantry weapons, SK-1 wheeled armoured personnel carriers, SK-2 water cannon (both armoured and unarmoured versions) and buses. Their uniform was the standard Volkspolizei grey-green.

The political reliability of the Alert Units was of particular importance to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) as they would be used against the population in the event of social disorders such as the strike of 17 June 1953 in the industrial areas of East Germany.

References

^ "Information zum Einsatz der Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft auf dem Wasunger Karneval 1988 | Mediathek des Stasi-Unterlagen-Archivs". www.stasi-mediathek.de.
^ Naimark, Norman M. "To Know Everything and to Report Everything Worth Knowing: Building the East German Police State, 1945-1949" (PDF). www.wilsoncenter.org. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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