PRUSSIAN SECRET POLICE
FORCE’S VAST ROWERS. The O.G.P.U. of Russia now has its counterpart in Prussia, states the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. The Prussian political police has been entirely separated from the regular police force and concentrated in a new “ secret State police department ” charged, with combating Bolshevism and other “ subversive movements.” Manned by picked men, this secret force will be absolutely independent of the ordinary police, and for the purposes of its special duties can actually exercise authority over them. It has its own offices opposite the Prussian Diet. The new department will take over a wide range of important functions from the regular police, including the supervision of the press. All arrests, investigations, etc., of a political nature will be carried out by the secret police, who will have plain-clothes agents at work in any centres which are believed to contain elements hostile to the present regime.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21989, 26 June 1933, Page 9
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151PRUSSIAN SECRET POLICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21989, 26 June 1933, Page 9
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