English Translation

W The General Commander St 17-101-02(2) of the Non-Uniformed Protectorate Police 1. 4. 1943 DA: Processing of capital crimes (tatort findings) - issued in agreement with the General Commander of the Uniform Protectorate police and the Ministry of Justice -. I. General 1. Basic information. The rapid and complete investigation of attempted or completed capital crimes is one of the most important tasks of the criminal police. Their processing must therefore be carried out without any loss of time as well as with extreme conscientiousness and with a special acceleration which does not endanger the thoroughness. Investigations in the first 24 hours are usually crucial. Failures in time and thoroughness cannot be made up for most of the time. This is particularly true when investigating murders. The exact crime scene report and the most careful forensics are the basic conditions for investigating a murder. The guidelines given in this DA must therefore be observed in the handling of murder cases and - as far as possible - applied in practice. In addition, the DA: "Processing of death investigation cases including suicides and suicide attempts by the Protectorate Criminal Police, St-17-101-25, and "Security and evaluation of crime scene traces and other evidence", St 15-100-30, are to be taken into account. 2. Local jurisdiction. The criminal directorates are responsible for the handling of killing offences. Therefore, in such cases, the local criminal authorities must immediately notify the local police departments of the relevant criminal departments or criminal police -meA - by telephone or by telephone, so that they send their own special organs to the scene of the crime or issue the relevant instructions and, if necessary, require the KPLSt. Prague or the police. KPSt. Brno. According to the assessment of the cases, the criminal directorates can also commission the local criminal departments or community criminal police -meA- with the processing. Community criminal police -meA - are therefore obliged if no other instructions have been given by the criminal authorities, apart from the first attack, to take the measures leading to final clarification and final processing. Community Criminal Police -meA - have to send a detailed final report to the relevant criminal authorities for information. — See also DA: "Processing of death investigations including suicides and suicide attempts by the Protectorate Criminal Police", St-17-101-25, paragraph II-2. 3. Notification in case of suspicion of murder. (a) the department responsible for carrying out the first attack (community criminal police, municipal enforcement police and gendarmerie — the latter two to the extent that they are responsible for the performance of criminal police duties) shall, after information has been received from the police bodies first appearing at the scene, inform the (1) department directly superior to the protectorate criminal police (GK — meA), KA and KA respectively. KD), (2) the local authority of the German Criminal Police, if its jurisdiction is given or can be assumed in the present circumstances; 6