(from German; "SS Police Self-Protection Regiment Sandà ¾ak", ), also known as the (, ) was a unit established on the territory of Sandà ¾ak by the senior Waffen-SS officer Karl von Krempler under the command of Hoxha Patchariz in Axis occupied Yugoslavia. Krempler went to the Sandà ¾ak region (named after the Ottoman administrative unit "Sanjak") in October and reorganized the local volunteer militia of around 5,000 anti-communist, anti-Serb Muslim men headquartered in Sjenica.
The SS Police Self-Defence Regiment Sandà ¾ak was created by joining three battalions of Albanian collaborationist troops with one battalion of the Sandà ¾ak Muslim militia. At one point around 2,000 members of the regiment operated in Sjenica.
All newly recruited members of this police were sent for two-months military training to Raà ¡ka and VuÃÂitrn. They sang Bosnian songs while they marched through populated places.
In August 1944 took part in operation Operation Rübezahl under command of 5th SS Mountain Corps. On 14 October 1944 Yugoslav partisans defeated the regiment during a surprise attack in which they took Sjenica and pushed it back to Duga Poljana, to the east. This action marked the end of the unit in Sandà ¾ak, although Germans recaptured Sjenica on 25 October 1944. In November 1944, PaÃÂariz together with his troops retreated to Sarajevo where the regiment was put under command of Ustaà ¡e General Maks LuburiÃÂ. PaÃÂariz was promoted to the rank of Ustaà ¡e Colonel.
In 1945 PaÃÂariz was captured near Banja Luka, put on trial and found guilty for massacres of civilians. He was executed as a war criminal.