Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD

Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (IdS), or Inspectors of the Security Police and the SD, were regional commanders of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo – security police) and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD – security service) in Nazi Germany. These positions were created by Reinhard Heydrich in 1936 to coordinate security and intelligence functions inside the Reich. They reported directly to Heydrich in the two main offices of the SiPo and SD (in September 1939, combined into the Reich Security Main Office, or RSHA) at the Schutzstaffel (SS) headquarters. The IdS were instrumental in executing the Nazi policies of intimidation and persecution of German Jews and, ultimately, the mass murder and genocide of the Holocaust.