Police

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and …

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24 May 2022 English

Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …

which consisted in the first instance of agents (Police and Wardens, etc.) reporting to local Centres.


5 May 2022 English

Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.

guard killed by covering fire from West Berlin police), and an East German border pillbox covering the Whole file Textual Incident involving Yugoslav police and Kevin Keegan at Belgrade airport FCO 33/2529 West Berlin, has been arrested by East German police on charges of exfiltration after trying to bring in West Berlin, has been jailed by East German police on charges of exfiltration after trying to bring Soviet press FCO 33/264 31-32 Visual Photographs of police officers patrolling West German border FCO 33/265


UNE: University of New England · 28 February 2018 English

By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …

organization which had little to do but practice and police blackout violations began to chafe on some ratepayers from bombing (Overy 2013). On September 4, 1940, a police report from the East End recorded “no sign of panic Assistant Commissioner, No. 3 District, Metropolitan Police], report, September 4, 1940 [4]. 13 HO 199/103 Assistant Commissioner, No. 3 District, Metropolitan Police], report, September 4, 1940 [3]. 12 HO 199/390 as can be judged was good,” while Warwickshire police reports remarked on the “high morale” of evacuees


AU: Aarhus University · 1 January 2017 English

“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …

while gradually curtailing the power of the secret police; 1962 was “a year of consolidation and compromise


1 January 2017 English

Soon after the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the country became the central battleground of the Cold War between the communist East and democratic, capitalist West. To prevent …

hints that perhaps Anna gave reports to the secret police, the Stasi, noting that she “remains on the look-out concert in West Berlin slipped away from her secret police escorts and defected in November 1982, leaving


RU: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · 1 January 2017 English

1968 was a momentous year. In the West, it is primarily remembered as a moment of global youth revolt.1 Events in Eastern Europe took place within the context of this …

(described by Rawlinson as “300 tough men”) and special police units moved onto the university and began to attack military or simply interrogated and beaten by the police. Professors and other people alleged to be connected months.12 Ivor Rawlinson was told that on June 19, police had entered a student dormitory and removed nine


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 1 January 2017 English

As well as heralding a series of momentous changes within Soviet domestic politics and society, the death of Stalin on March 5, 1953 also brought forward important shifts of tone …

his hold over the Interior Ministry and secret police, while Vyacheslav Molotov, who despised and feared used tanks, motorized infantry, and local armed police to restore order. Events in East Germany dispelled formal state machinery, including the feared secret police (Beria himself was executed for treason in December


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 German

A file containing records of meetings between the visits commissioners of the Berlin Senate and the East German government. Subjects covered in these meetings included the construction and operation of …

year-old son Kay was treated by the GDR railway police when he visited the GDR (detained from 11.30 am about the GDR's new a r r a n g e m e n t s for police registration and.minimum exchange at the checkpoint was no l o n g e r necessary to register with the police on visits of up to three d a y s . The rules governing obtained at the checkpoints, if registration with the police at one's destination is not appli- c a b l e . S-Bahn and Reichsbahn t r a i n s . The railway police had handed over 67 offenders to the West Berlin


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

rights by members of the armed forces or of the police or of the administration of the State. 3. Nothing r c e s or ^ ^ police and Convention 98 does not apply to the armed forces, police or public servants Convention shall apply to the armed forces and the police shall be determined by national laws or regulations virtue of which members of the armed forces or the police enjoy any right guaranteed by this Convention. Convention shall ^ V y to the armed forces and the police shall be determined by national laws or regulations


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

CONFIDENTIAL /little COK PI D M TI AL little while, the police burst in, hustled everyone up against the wall seized from him and flung across the room. The police then later insisted that the Scientific Attache Herczyñski was taken back to internment by the police. When the American Ambassador was summoned to


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