Sochi Police extremism and armed conflict. The people's courts and people's Militia – the first revolutionary government agencies, created a group of police officers in Sochi . At the end of February 1917 in Russia, won the bourgeois-democratic revolution. In March 1917 the Government Commissioner D. Konchalovsky signed a document that tells about what "people" elected, and the police began their duties, and that the hallmark of a policeman will be a white patch on the sleeve. In the same way, and formed the Militsiya in Sochi, which lasted until January 1918 the Chief of Police H. Sokolsky often invited to his
NKVD was left with no capable security force, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR established () a secret political police, the "Cheka", led by Felix Dzerzhinsky. It gained the right to undertake quick non-judicial trials and executions, if that was deemed necessary in order to "protect the Russian Socialist-Communist revolution". The "Cheka" was reorganized in 1922 as the State Political Directorate, or GPU, of the NKVD of the RSFSR. In 1922 the USSR formed, with the RSFSR as its largest member. The GPU became the OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate), under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.