The Prussian Ministerpraesident [Goering]
Secret State Police
Insp. 1946/11 March 34
Subject: Order concerning protective custody
Effective immediately I order the following:
1. The regulations which so far dealt with competence with regard to the application of protective custody for political reasons are cancelled. In future restrictions of personal freedom in accordance with article 1 of the Decree for the Protection of the People and State, dated 28 February 1933, may be ordered with effect on the entire state territory [of Prussia] by the Secret State Police Office only, and within their local fields of jurisdiction by the Oberpraesidenten, Regierungspraesidenten, the police president in Berlin and the local state police offices.
The district police authorities, especially the Landraete, are no longer competent for such measures. The measures hitherto ordered by them will be rescinded as per 31 March unless they have been extended by order of the competent police authorities of the constituent states.
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Offices of the Party and the affiliated organizations may not carry out arrests on their own initiative. In case of disobedience to this order the competent authority will interfere, and report to me, at once.
To the Ober- and Regierungspraesidenten