Volkspolizei - Training

Training

From 1962, the DVP had its own school in Berlin-Biesdorf which trained around 3,500 officers up to 1989. There were several other schools. The Kasernierten Einheiten (barracks units) had their own training facilities. Officers were initially trained in the army ground forces, from 1963 at the Officers' school and from 1971 to the officers' school in Dresden-Wilder Mann.

• VP-Schule "Ernst Thälmann", Neustrelitz (since 1984 central service similar school)
• Schule für Abschnittsbevollmächtigte (school for the section represented), Wolfen
• Transportpolizei-Schule (Transport Police School), Halle (Saale)
• Verkehrspolizei-Schule "Hans Beimler" (Traffic Police School), Magdeburg
• Schule des Nachrichtenwesens (School of Intelligence), Dommitzsch
• Spezialschule des MdI für Diensthundewesen — Special School for service dogs, Pretzsch (Elbe)
• Spezialschule des MdI für medizinische Dienste (im Bezirk Magdeburg ) - Special School of medical services (in the district of Magdeburg)
• Fachschule des MdI "Heinrich Rau" - College of MdI "Heinrich Rau", Radebeul
• Fachschule des MdI, „ Wilhelm Pieck “ - College of the MdI, "Wilhelm Pieck", Aschersleben
• Hochschule der VP — University of the VP, Berlin-Biesdorf (Cecilienstraße)
• Offiziershochschule Bereitschaften "Artur Becker", Dresden (school readiness officer, "Artur Becker", Dresden (now the headquarters of the State Criminal Office Saxony)
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin /Sektion Kriminalistik — Humboldt University Berlin / Criminalistics Section

The Volkspolizei had approximately 80,000 full-time police officers and 177,500 volunteers.

With the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990, authority over the police went to the newly created federal jurisdiction. About 40 percent of the DVP employees had to leave the service.