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A pair of uniformed officers of the Policja. The force's name, Policja, translates into the English language as Police. An individual officer is typically called a policjant (plural policjanci); these are not, however, official titles and are not included in the official rank structure, they are simply terms used to refer to any police officer regardless of the rank they may hold.
1887 Russian 'wanted' poster for future Polish Marshal of Poland and Chief of State, Józef Piłsudski. During the period of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's existence, most law enforcement was undertaken by a group of nobles of varying degrees of importance who possessed private armies and who, in return for political power and a place within the nation's social hierarchy, swore their ...
policja.pl The commander-in-chief of Police ( Polish : Komendant Główny Policji ) is the head of the Police ( Policja ) of Poland, a national civilian police force. The commander presides over the National Police Headquarters ( Komenda Główna Policji ) and reports to the Minister of Interior and Administration .
Police rank and equivalent army rank: Posterunkowy – Kapral; Starszy posterunkowy – Plutonowy; Przodownik – Sierżant; Starszy przodownik – Starszy sierżant; Aspirant – Podporucznik
Polish Criminal Police. The Polish Criminal Police (Polish: Polska Policja Kryminalna) was a non-uniformed, armed and secret formation of auxiliary police, colloquially called “Polish Kripo”, active in the years 1940-1945 in the General Government during the German occupation of Poland.
From 1972, the duties of ZOMO included counter-terrorism (including countering aircraft hijackings), with the elite Special Platoons of the ZOMO (pl. Plutony Specjalne ZOMO ) created in 1978. As opposition to the communist government in Poland grew, the units were expanded to counter the growing unrest, and their role became more of anti-riot ...
On June 1, 2014, the band became a unit of the Presidential Division of the Police Headquarters of the Policja, and was renamed to the Representative Band of the Policja. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] On the band's 40th anniversary on 22 January 2009, a large concert was held at the Bajka theatre in Warsaw, with a program that featured inter alia, a solo ...
The Blue Police (Polish: Granatowa policja, lit. Navy-blue police), was the police during the Second World War in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland.Its official German name was Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement (Polish Police of the General Government; Polish: Policja Polska Generalnego Gubernatorstwa).