THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2162, sig. 109-8/45

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br The General Commander St 17-101-20 of the Non-Uniformed Protectorate Police 10. 5. 1943 DA: Missed and unknown dead in agreement with the General Commander of the Uniform Protectorate police issued -. A. Missed. I. General. 1. Basic information on jurisdiction. The handling of missing matters is in itself a welfare police matter. However, since the disappearance of persons often involves criminal acts, the investigation of missing persons has been placed in the jurisdiction of the criminal police. (b) in principle, receive any such notification, even where it does not fall within their local jurisdiction, and (1) determine the competent department (2) to transmit the notification by means of its own findings. 2. Rules of jurisdiction between the German Criminal Police and the Protectorate Criminal Police in Bohemia and Moravia. Is it the missing notification of a German, foreigner or protectorate member or. If missing persons have been returned to the German Criminal Police or to the Pro- tectorate (criminal) police services, the following procedure shall be followed: (a) In the case of German nationals and foreigners. If German nationals or foreigners are reported missing to a (1) department of the Protectorate (criminal) police, the latter is obliged to hand the case over to the next department of German Criminal Police, which then treats the case, (2) the department of Deutsche Criminal Police is reported missing, the competent department of Protektorate Criminal Police shall be obliged to cooperate if it has been consulted by the German Criminal police. (b) in the case of members of the protectorate. If members of the protectorate are reported missing to an (1) department of the Protectorate (criminal) police, the protectorates (criminimal) police must take over the processing — however, the German criminal police may intervene in the service supervision procedure —, (2) the service of the German crime police must be reported missing and the operation shall be transferred to the Protectorates criminal police, as provided for in (b) (1) above. 3. Specific matters of competence within the Protectorate Criminal Police. The implementation of the individual measures shall be carried out by the departments of the Protectorates Criminal Police, the Community Enforcement Police and the Gendarmerie, the latter two being entrusted with the performance of criminal police duties, the 21