STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1291, sig. 109-4/1045

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12 346 53. Building Police Office . The construction and criminal law tasks of the building police authority so far worry the building department III, the construction engineering work is carried out by the building office 12. The construction department III also deals with a number of other tasks. 47 officials and employees are employed in this department, including 14 lawyers, 1 accounting officer and 1 administrative officer in class II. It was not possible to reliably determine how many of these forces are involved in the construction business. 12 are employed together at 38 persons, of which Ib 20 engineers, Ib 4 architects and II construction staff are also employed by 4 staff • In addition, 1 engineer and 2 architects work as contract staff at the Construction Office. As already mentioned by the City Planning Office, this has become strongly involved in the business of the Construction Police Office. However, the Building Department III and the Bauant Abt. l2 did not give up any powers for this. Here it is to be repeated that the responsible Aemter should carry out their tasks themselves in the future. It should be noted that the cityscape, which is high in the whole of the artistic and urban development, is unwelcomely affected by a considerable number of poor new buildings and that in the urban district, namentlicn in the suburbs was wildly built on a worrying scale. It must be concluded from this that in recent years the Construction Police Department has not pursued the construction activity in the city with the clearest clarity and rigour; it will be necessary to tighten up construction controls. For this reason and in view of the planned redesign of the urban development plan and the expected extraordinary increase in the new construction activity, the establishment plan for the building police against the technical forces has been strengthened so far.