The regiment was ordered formed on 9 July 1942 in northern
Russia.
Police Battalion 56 (
Polizei-Bataillon 56),
Police Battalion 102, I Battalion of the
15th Police Regiment, formerly
Police Battalion 305, and
Police Battalion 121 were redesignated as the regiment's first through fourth
battalions, respectively. I Battalion was transferred to
Tilsit,
East Prussia (now
Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast), and was converted into a training unit on 5 February 1943. It eventually became I Battalion of the
3rd SS Police Regiment and was replaced by a newly formed battalion in July 1944. All of the police regiments were redesignated as SS police units on 24 February 1943, but this was strictly honorary. IV Battalion was disbanded in 1943 and the remnants of the
9th SS Police Regiment were absorbed into III Battalion in mid-1944.
Pirčiupiai Massacre Under the command of
Walter Titel, the III Battalion's 9th and 10th Companies committed the
Pirčiupiai massacre on June 3, 1944. ==Notes==