Policja

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Police Policja
Emblem of Policja
Badge of Polish Police
Agency Overview
Preceding agency	Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens' Militia)
Employees	100,000
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional Structure
National agency	Poland
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
Minister responsible	Grzegorz Schetyna, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji)
Agency executive	Andrzej Matejuk, Commander in Chief of Police
Departments	8 Municipal police services Highway Patrol service Administration activity services Safety service Corruption and serious commercial crimes Rapid response team Railway police service Air service
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 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

[edit] 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).

[edit] Equipment

Handguns:

• Walther P99 (manufactured in Poland in Łucznik Arms Factory under licence
• Glock-17
• Glock-19
• Glock-26
• P-83 Wanad (almost phased out)
• P-64 (phased out and stored)

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)

Assault rifles

• H&K G-36(limited use)
• AKMS
• HK-416 (limited use)

Sniper rifles

• SVD
• SAKO TRG-21 (also newer variants)

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] 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

[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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