A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2153, sig. 109-8/36

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TV The commander of the security police and SD Prague, 30 June ..19.42 XIX, Kastanienallee 19 telex 70615, 70465 Tgb. No. B. d. S. - VR 1 - 1426/42. Copy! Please indicate the above business sign and date when replying. -33 Office of the StatePies SU at Reichopro et fesifoglen in Bohemia and Malen. Eing.: - 8. JULY 1942 ten0 a) the State Police Department Prague, teb) the state police department brum,as -V c) the criminal police department Prague,d) the police department Brno,lieddsagn e) the SD section Prague,f) the central office for Jewish emigration Prague. CNEON 686J0D J0 Subject: Reorganisation of the protectorate police. The Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia has with order of 18. June 1942 - B.d.0. Pr. 1000 - created in the Ministry of the Interior with effect from 1 July 1942 the position of general commander for the entire uniformed protectorate police (government police and gendarmerie) and the place of general commandant of the non-uniformed protectorate Police under the leadership of the higher f- and police leader. On the one hand, the commander of the order police and JOC on the other hand the commanders of the security police were assigned to manage the operations of the general commanders, thus placing the entire protectorate executive under German leadership, albeit temporarily maintaining its autonomous character. The purpose and aim of these measures is to streamline the organisation and orientation of the police in accordance with the principles of the Reich and to eliminate unreliable and unsuitable elements, taking into account racial aspects, in order to enable the protectorate police to enter or enter into the same at the given time of the German police.