A quick note about the current state of German policing -- as you'll run into German police quite a bit, and all of this would be things your characters know.<br/><br/>At the end of the war most of the civilian police forces were "demobilized" and military occupational forces attempted to handle maintaining peace and order. But Germany was a recently destabilized country of millions, and there were never enough military police. With reports of theft and violent crime rising steps had to be taken.<br/><br/>In the West a number of ex-police were rehired and the Landespolizei, a "national" force in the French, British, and American sectors is created.<br/><br/>In the city of Berlin in the three western zones you'll encounter Schutzpolizei ("ShuPo") or uniformed patrol police and Kriminalpolizei ("KriPo") who are "plain clothes" detectives.<br/><br/>Traveling in the eastern sector you will encounter Volkspolizei (VoPo), the Soviet version of the same thing. Although they have Shupo and Kripo as well, all of them are uniformed, so they just tend to be called "VoPo."<br/><br/>As members of occupational powers you are expected to obey civilian laws, however the police forces have no power of arrest over you. Instead the Allied Military Police can arrest you, and you can be Court Martialed by a military tribunal of your nation for civilian crimes, should it come to that.