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| Preceding agency | Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens' Militia) |
| Employees | 100,000 |
| Legal personality | Governmental agency |
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| National agency | Poland |
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| Minister responsible | Grzegorz Schetyna, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji) |
| Agency executive | Grzegorz Schetyna, Commander in Chief of Police |
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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 approximately 100,000 staff. Among the departments in the force are , Municipal police services, Highway Patrol service, the administration activity services, the Safety service, the service for investigating corruption and serious commercial crimes, the rapid response team, the railway police service and the air service
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Transportation
Today, most common types include various models from Škoda, Volkswagen, Opel, steadily phased out FSO Polonez (manufactured in Poland) and other.
Traditionally, they are painted in dark blue (side doors optionally painted in white for traffic police) with white stripes and the word "POLICJA" on both sides, composed into the stripe. 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). However, currently (2007), in an attempt to conform to EU standards, the scheme is being modified to silver/blue (similar to modern German police cars).
Equipment
- x4.800 Glock-19 (The contract was awarded in 2007 and first deliveries were scheduled for October that same year.)
Other weapons of polish police:
Guns:
- Walther P99 (manufactured in Poland in Łucznik Arms Factory under licence
- P-83 Wanad
- P-64 (phased out and stored)
Sub-machine guns
- PM-84 Glauberyt (version designed specially for Polish Police named "PM-84P Glauberyt),
- H&K MP5
- Uzi machine gun ( replaced by PM-84P Glauberyt and stored)
Assault rifles
Sniper rifles
 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 Cracow |
Historical secret police organizations
See also
- Milicja Obywatelska (MO)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration of the Republic of Poland (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji)
- Polish Police Headquarters
References
- ^ Journal of Laws of the General Headquarters of Police, 2006, January 23
External links
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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