A new version of the "Regulation 30/10", issued by the Ministry for National Defence to promote the "organisation and leadership of border security in the border company", enters into force. The paragraphs about using firearms are largely identical with those in the old regulation from 1964.
The "use of firearms" is limited "to the temporary arrest of people who do not obey orders from border guards, i.e. who do not stop at the call of "Stop – border guard – hands up!’ or after a warning shot, but obviously try to break through the national border to the German Democratic Republic, and no other possibility of temporary arrest exists."
