The Republic of Vietnam National Police was officially created by President Ngô Đình Diệm's national decree in June 1962 from a conglomerate of smaller internal security and paramilitary agencies raised by the French Union authorities during the First Indochina War between 1946 and 1954.
The CSQG strength peaked in February 1971 at 103,859 personnel - including 3,144 female agents, mostly engaged in clerical work[REF] -, 4,450 vehicles and some 830 motorcycles of various types.