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Beginning in 1950, Soviet naval officers helped to establish the Hauptverwaltung Seepolizei ( Main Administration Sea Police ), which was renamed Volkspolizei-See ( VP-See ) ( People's Police-Sea ) on 1 July 1952.

At the same time parts of the erstwhile maritime police were reorganized into the new Grenzpolizei-See ( Border Police-Sea ), to guard the sea frontiers, and incorporated into the Deutsche Grenzpolizei ( German Border Police ) that had been set up in 1946.

By 1952 the VP-See is estimated to have numbered some 8, 000 personnel.