Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 964, sig. 110-8/37 (damaged)

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249 2 TO more need to see their boss, who is their immediate superior in all personal matters, they will also have no interest in maintaining a particularly close relationship with him; however, mastering the German citizen cannot be expected to constantly ask for information and information from the future criminal offices in their communities, while they have been able to command so far. Nationalization would therefore mean that the criminal police would become completely self-sufficient and that the connection not only with the municipal authorities and thus with the internal administration, but also with the other police divisions, which would remain under the supervision and direction of the mayors, would become more and more dependent. 3.) The desire to relieve the communities financially and to free them from the increased costs of the criminal police cannot provide sufficient justification for such a drastic change in the organisational structure of the police. The Ministry of Finance could, without further ado, order that the additional costs, which are almost unbearable for the municipalities, should be borne entirely or partly by the Protectorate. 4.) The previous reorganisations and reorganizations in the police sector may have been politically justified and necessary, but on the other hand they have made the very clear structure of the protectorate police extremely complicated. It was right to carry out further restructuring measures only in the case of particularly difficult reasons. I think it would be wrong to transfer schematic forms of police organization in the Reichvauf to the Protectorate. If at the moment one goes over to nationalizing the municipal criminal police in the Reich, it is not yet said that an equal settlement in Bohemia and Moravia, where the criminal police authorities lack a German substructure and the conditions are fundamentally different, is useful. In addition, the reorganisation, which would be seen as a further interference in autonomy,