Standard practice for SS generals serving as an SS and police leader, as well as those senior SS personnel of the RSHA, was to hold dual police rank as "SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei". "SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS" was the equivalent in the armed SS; in 1944, most active SS generals received this designation in order to command military troops during the last days of the war. Approximately fifteen SS generals were ranked as "SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS".