STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 174, sig. 109-2/76

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18 Prague, 8 January 1940. The Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia No. 0Pol-VuR _II_18e-35/40 Betr.: Hilfspolizei im Protectorat. l91 t (Technische Nothilfe) 5.u.d. l/761=.40. I. The question of the operation, the use, the payment of auxiliary police belongs to the area of the Main Office Order Police with the Raichsführer= and head of the German Police in the Reichsministerium des Inneren. Accordingly, in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the responsible handling of the matter is to the commander of the police order (cf. order of 18.7.l939 - I A 5300). II. Within the framework of these provisions, the officer of the order police is in particular responsible for the deployment, use, withdrawal and economic care of units of the technical emergency assistance. He is assisted by an agent of the Reichsamt Technical Emergency Assistance, who is seconded from the Reichamt Techn, emergency assistance to the Ruichsprotector and is under the responsibility of the Federal Police. He has his place of duty P r a g XIX., Pelléstrasse 15 - telephone 77-355. An emergency technical assistance operation must therefore be requested from the Order Police Commander, to whom the units set up in the Protectorate will then also be subject. The question of economic assistance in detail will be clarified in the near future by a final decree.