Police forces ran their own transnational cooperation independent of governments

Evidence

This police-directed foreign policy functioned quite independently of the official governments; the relations between the Gestapo and the French police were never more cordial than at the time of Leon Blum’s popular-front government, which was guided by a decidedly anti-German policy. Contrary to the governments, the various police organizations were never overburdened with “prejudices” against any totalitarian regime; the information and denunciations received from GPU agents were just as welcome to them as those from Fascist or Gestapo agents. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 699

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Police cooperation across ideological lines parallels the way security bureaucracies today share databases and deportation intelligence independent of political leadership.