Перший поліцейський участок Префектури поліції міста Одеси

Inventories in the fonds are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Included (f. R-2353, f. R-2354) are accounting data of the second and ninth police precincts compiled on the eve of and after the interning of Jews in ghettos: family lists of Jews residing within the precincts, with family members’ ages indicated; addresses of and numbers of rooms in apartments they occupied; and documents describing Jewish property left behind (f. R-2353, 1942). There is also a list of Jews sent from the Mogilev ghetto for a month to work at the printing office of the Governorate of Transnistria (f. R-2352, n.d.); the file of a case investigated by the Siguranţă of an inhabitant of Odessa and her son accused of being Jewish (1942); etc. The Police Prefecture functioned in Odessa during the German-Romanian occupation of the city (October 1941 through January 1944), when it was the administrative center of the Governorate of Transnistria ; it was under the command of the governor and comprised ten police precincts (the first, second, and ninth precincts being located in the city center). Police organs consisted of a criminal department and a department of the Siguranţă. Their functions included the maintenance of the occupation regime, transportation requisition, mobilizing citizens for forced labor, etc.