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| | East Germany - Agencies of the Ministry of the Interior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The members of the armed agencies of the Ministry of the Interior observe military discipline and bear rank designations. |
 | | In 1987 the minister of the interior, Friedrich Dickel, for example, was a colonel general. |
 | | In addition to the armed groups, the Ministry of the Interior has other branches which control the Fire Fighters, Prison Administration, Municipal Police, Traffic Police, Criminal Police, Training Administrations, Passport Department, and registration system, as well as some 135,000 volunteer police assistants (see fig. |
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