English Translation

La des Reichsführers- und Chefs der Deutschen Polizei vom 12.3 1941 2S - 0.-Kdo. g 2 (0 1) Nr. 237/40 (g). All other cases are exhaustively regulated by the above-mentioned decree of the Shefs of the Security Police and the SD. On the other hand, the police are clearly responsible for only traffic police measures. The measures at the South-East Conference were purely protective measures for the protection of the touching persons, but not at all traffic police measures, which would not have been necessary for the relatively small number of guests and motor vehicles. The measures carried out by the BdO during these days were therefore not within his competence and would not have been necessary from the point of view of securing the early personalities who took part in this meeting. To this extent, the defects referred to by theBdO were caused by himself. The leadership staff mentioned by the BdO is based on the decree of the Chief of the Security Police and the SD of 9.3.1940 and only enters into action on certain occasions (visit of the Führer or the Reichsmarschall). It is not correct that in other cases leadership staffs are formed in the Old Reich, as the Bdo provides. In all other cases, the local head of the Stapostelle is responsible for the security measures alone. Thus, these measures are clearly and solely the responsibility of the commander of the security police. If the use of the order police becomes necessary in the case of such bizarre police measures, the corresponding units of the administrative police will also be made available to the head of the security measures, which determines the nature and scope of the operation, whereas the implementation of the charge is entrusted to the leader of the regulatory police unit with a general responsibility. If these are the events on which the Higher Chief of the Police and the Chief of Police personally constitutes the Chief's Staff, on the occasion of the visit of the Leader or the Imperial Marshal, then in this case the representative of the Chief is the Commander of the Security Police, because the measures that have given rise to the formation of the Head's Office are the responsibility of the Commander in charge of the 21135 ./.