Police Policja
Emblem of Policja
Badge of Polish Police
Agency overview
Formed	1919
Preceding agency	Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens' Militia)
Employees	103.309 (officers) 12.000 (civilians)
Annual budget	9.3 bln PLN (2009)
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
National agency	PL
Constituting instruments	Act on the Police, 1990, April 6 Order no. 2 of the Police Police Commander in Chief of 17 January 2006 on the regulations of the General Headquarters of Police[1]
General nature	Law enforcement Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Warsaw
Minister responsible	Grzegorz Schetyna, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji)
Agency executive	gen. insp. Andrzej Matejuk, Commander in Chief of Police (Komendant Główny Policji)
Regional HQs	17 + 5 training centers
Website
Policja (English)

Policja is the generic name for the police in Poland. The Polish police force was known as policja throughout the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), and in modern post-communist Republic of Poland since 1990. Its current size is 103.309 officers and ca. 12.000 civilian employees . Among the branches in the force are: Criminal service, Traffic Police services, Prevention Service and Supporting Service. Most towns and some villages have its own City guard, which supervises public order and road safety; however City guard have jurisdiction only over misdemeanours and in cases of crimes may serve only supportive role for the state police.

Contents 1 Transportation 2 Equipment 3 Historical secret police organizations 4 Cricitism of Policja 5 See also 6 References 7 External links 8 Further reading

[edit] Transportation

Today, most common types include various models from Kia (Cee'd model - ca. 4000 in use) Škoda (mainly Octavia), Opel (mainly Opel Astra), FSO Polonez (manufactured in Poland) is no longer in use.

The roadway patrol cars, very widely used: marked and unmarked Opel Vectra, Kia cee'd, unmarked Ford Mondeo, unmarked Renault Megane, and VW Transporter fitted as mobile offices for investigation of road accidents.

Painting scheme is being modified now (2009) to silver body with blue reflective strip (similar to modern German police cars) Traditionally, they were painted in dark blue (with side doors painted in white) with white stripe and the word "POLICJA" on both sides. Earlier version (used at the beginning of 1990's) had a thinner stripe with word "POLICJA" written under it (it was adopted from communistic Milicja paint scheme, some examples even had visible traces of the world "POLICJA" being corrected from "MILICJA", with two first letters in different shade of white, on a patch of different shade of blue). .

[edit] Equipment

Handguns:

• Walther P99 (manufactured in Poland in Łucznik Arms Factory under licence
• Glock-17
• Glock-19
• Glock-26
• P-83 Wanad
• P-64
• CZ-75 (limited use)
• Gward (virtually phased out)
• Taurus (virtually phased out)

Sub-machine guns

• PM-84 Glauberyt
• PM-98 Glauberyt
• H&K MP5 (limited use)
• H&K UMP (9mm variant, limited use)
• IMI Uzi (limited use)
• FN P-90 (limited use)
• PM-63 RAK ( virtually phased out)

Assault rifles

• AKMS
• H&K G-36(limited use)
• HK-416 (limited use in AT squad)
• HK-417 (limited use in AT squad)

Sniper rifles

• SVD
• SAKO TRG-21
• SAKO TRG-22
• SAKO TRG-42

Grenade launchers

• RWGŁ-3
• AWGŁ-1
• GL-06
• HK69

Shotguns

• Mossberg (590 model)
• Remington (870 MCS)
• Hatsan (Escort model)
• Benelli M3 ( limited use)

Old Polish Police car (FSO Polonez) in old scheme with white side doors	New Polish Police Car Nissan X-Trail in new scheme	Mounted Police officer in Poznań near the Adam Mickiewicz University	Polish Police officer from anti-riots units before the football match in Warsaw
Two policemen during the patrol of Old Market Square in Kraków

[edit] Historical secret police organizations

• Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB)

[edit] Cricitism of Policja

There is considerable criticism of Policja, especially by young Polish hooligans. This is most commonly expressed with the HWDP or ChWDP acronym. The Polish hooligans, and other Polish young people, maintain, that the current Polish police is corrupted, abusive, and too aggressive.

[edit] See also

• Milicja Obywatelska (MO)
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration of the Republic of Poland (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji)
• Polish Police Headquarters

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• http://www.policja.pl
• Early 1918 Polish police signal whistle

[edit] Further reading

• Andrzej Kremplewski, The Police and Non-Governmental Organizations in Poland, in András Kádár (ed.), Police in Transition: Essays on the Police Forces in Transition Countries, Central European University Press, 2001, ISBN 9639241156

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