STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 114, sig. 109-2/14

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English Translation

-1a local police officer.. A police office does not exist so far. There is a "cormandancy of the city police" which is occupied by a commandant, a deputy of the same and about 160 guards, the commander emerged from the simple administrative service and was theoretically and practically trained in the government police. The guards are divided into two groups. The larger group, about 1 2O man, has to provide the security, order and assistant service, the smaller group, approximately 40 men the investigation and survey service/declaration service/. The watch, order and assistant service consists of the guarding of municipal cash registers, the supervision of money transports and cashiers, the order of public traffic in front of sales sites, the vacation of housekeeping, push service, participation in forced evictions and similar tasks. The investigative service is mainly responsible for investigating the population on behalf of the municipal services, and is involved in price control, toughness, etc. The guards are said to have attended at least three classes of a civic school, but a considerable part of the genocidal team only has primary education. The teams assigned to the security service have three months to attend a six-month training course for the police service. On the course visit, a professional exam precedes an examination by the president. The training should correspond to that of the police teams of the so-called protectorate police. According to the plan of organization, other agencies will be taken over by the future police department, by the conscription department, the basing and swearing-in of field guards and the general concerns of field and forest protection;