On May 27, 1922, the Crimean Political Directorate received a telegram signed by the Deputy Chairman of the GPU, with the following text: "Guided by the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets dated 06.02.1922 and by the Regulations on the State Political Directorate, the Crimean Political Directorate shall henceforth be named the 'Crimean Department of the GPU'."
By that time, according to a report by the Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Political Directorate, Birzgal, to the Council of People's Commissars of the Autonomous Crimean SSR, the Crimean Political Directorate had 1,500 employees and 500 informants on its rolls.
The OGPU Plenipotentiary Representation for Crimea—the Political Directorate attached to the Crimean Central Executive Committee—existed until July 1934, when, in execution of the resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of July 11, 1934, and the order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR, the NKVD Directorate of the USSR for the Crimean ASSR was established, comprising the following directorates and departments: the State Security Directorate, consisting of the secret-political department, economic department, special department, special group, registration and statistical section, operations department, foreign section, and personnel department; and the Workers' and Peasants' Militia Directorate, which incorporated the bodies and organizations of the Crimean Militia Directorate.