English Translation

V Through immediate and thorough investigation of the fixed populations, weapons, ID cards, military orders, all kinds of documents at all, must be secured and transferred with the prisoners, separated for each prisoner, to the next military service (possible air force) with the request to transport them to the Dulag air of Oberursel. The arrests must be reported to the criminal police headquarters in Frankfurt a.M., which in turn informs Dulag-Luft Oberursel. 5. The password "Komet" and the serial numbers (see paragraph 2) shall be used in all searches, follow-up reports, inquiries and statements. 6. For example, enemy fighters seized by the Wehrmacht or other services independently of the police search will be reported to the Dulag-Luft Oberursel and transferred, which will inform the criminal police department Frankfurt a. M. in order to cancel the search. If such arrests are immediately known to the criminal police department requested for co-examination, it shall immediately notify the Criminal Police Department Frankfurt a. M. of this. Likewise, uninvolved criminal police departments, in whose area jumped or distressed enemy fighters are seized, are also prosecuted. In the case of these reports, the criminal police authorities must not use the word ‘comet'. 7. In order to ensure the successful execution of the search, the criminal police stations in the air-hazarded areas must be formed from officers and security and order police hunting squads who, upon receipt of a search order in the eligible areas, will work together with the search forces called upon there. Wehrmacht units shall be involved as far as necessary and possible. The motorization of the hunting squads must be ensured in agreement with the competent inspectors (commands) of the order police or the Wehrmacht. At the other criminal police stations such hunting commands must be prepared. Orders in the field of investigation are generally issued by the oldest official of the security police. With the simultaneous use of the Wehrmacht and the police, cooperation must be ensured by agreement of the military and police unit leaders. 8. Mutual use of police and military intelligence, especially in the event of destruction by enemy action, is ensured by the existing decrees and orders. 9. In the event of total damage to a criminal police station or disturbance caused by enemy effects in the police intelligence network, the criminal police department in Frankfurt a. M. will forward search applications to a neighbouring criminal police office, which must carry out the search with all its strength. For this purpose, the criminal police authorities must agree with each other how they communicate in the event of damage and disturbance and carry out the search orders. 10. The criminal police department Frankfurt a.M. It shall ensure that the documents for this search are kept as safe as possible for air protection purposes and, in the event of damage, in particular by the effect of the enemy, prepare for the establishment of an evasive site. In the event of a failure of the criminal police department Frankfurt a.M. and its alternate office, the Reichs- Kriminalpolizeiamt will commission another criminal police office, which seems appropriate, with its tasks.