English Translation

G 2 of the national community or generally from a low sense against the war economic regulations. Such economic aboteurs are to be regarded as national and state fines. (3) Without prejudice to criminal prosecution, the police are therefore increasing the scope of the extended obligation to examine in all cases whether police measures are to be taken. In cases of economic sabotage, the means of protective detention is indispensable for the effective fight against them. It must be applied, in particular, if criminal law measures cannot be taken or if a strict measure of healthy popular sentiment is not sufficient, which will be particularly true if the judicial authorities submit cases on their own initiative to the police authorities to check whether protective detention is appropriate. However, the imposition of protective detention should not be allowed in the case of minor, particularly first-time, infringements, which are obviously sufficient to be punished by judicial or orderly penalties. Nor is it normally necessary to intervene when it is established that family members of members of the Wehrmacht or persons working in the Occupied Territories are supplied with food or other goods of daily use only for their own consumption. Finally, it must not be intervened in cases where the impunity of the participant (§ 1 a para. (4) The police services have, if they consider the imposition of protective detention for up to 21 days necessary and sufficient, to send a corresponding application to the competent state police station.