Special Investigation Branch - Royal Air Force Police SIB

Royal Air Force Police SIB

The Royal Air Force Police Special Investigations Branch, formed in 1918, has the distinction of being the only branch-specific investigative unit entrusted with a major war crime when five officers and fourteen NCOs were given the assignment of investigating the Stalag Luft III murders immediately following the Second World War.

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