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

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uh In this context, it should be noted that, in the absence of an active and energetic personality in the person of the head of the national police administration or of the district police authority concerned, all the threads of the police network are united in their hands as heads of the whole authority and are engaged in the responsibility and execution of instructions and orders given. Oberlandrat Dr. E c k o l d t ·has correctly illustrated and described the state of the police relations in his report, but the conditions in the Reich are not much better stored. There, too, the criminal police have recently been removed from the subordination relationship with the state police administrator and declared as an independent department. KRIPO is transferred to the administration of the secret state police in both human and economic terms.There is only a briefing on the criminal police activity in its police area against the state police administrator. In this respect, I see serious dangers coming up. I have just made it particularly difficult in previous years to bring together members of the disparate police divisions to form a unit and to educate them into a corps spirit. I had also achieved the best results in this, donM E. In the current organisational changes, however, it will be the inevitable consequence that unified governance and leadership in a common location will be completely lost. The name or the name of the state police administrator as the police president or police director is then devoid of any justification or justification, its powers are undermined, the name only sound and smoke. In fact, -xolinutdo will be in a situation where various police officers are informed of this and know something in a police area. The simple people - tim comrades will never understand this, because in his thinking he is necessarily of glau- zoning that the police president or director in a city must of course know what is going on in his police area. In the long run, for the sake of the police's authority as a visible representative of the state authority, it cannot be beneficial if there are different police stations with independent heads in one city. I did indeed - locally - have corresponding influence and authority with all police - teb nednabacmot Laaegoe 400401