Editing Rodolfo Barrenechea (section)

== Chef der Ordnungspolizei ==

Paap created the Ordnungspolizei by Führerbefehl on 15 April 1970 and appointed Barrenechea as its first chief on the same day. Barrenechea received the rank of General der Polizei. He directed the transfer of Argentine police personnel into the new structure and placed them under an Argentine Ordnungspolizei command headquartered in [[Buenos Aires]]. The central Ordnungspolizei staff operated from [[Georgetown]], [[Tanoa]].<ref name="ordnungspolizei-history"/>

After [[Fiji]] was annexed in 1975, Barrenechea oversaw the transfer of its existing police into a Fiji Ordnungspolizei command headquartered in [[Suva]]. He remained chief during the [[Suva Crisis]], which began on 31 December 1979. Delayed instructions from Tanoa hindered the initial police response. After the crisis ended on 2 January 1980, Barrenechea ordered a permanent direct communications line between the Suva command and Ordnungspolizei headquarters in Georgetown.<ref name="ordnungspolizei-history"/>

Barrenechea remained Chef der Ordnungspolizei after [[Eef Paap]] succeeded Jan Paap as Führer in January 1980. He retired on 15 April 1982. Barrenechea died on 18 October 1997 at the age of 82.