State Police (Poland)

[1] The security protection system in the Second Polish Republic was shaped in the years 1918–1923, and the culmination of this process was the issuance of the regulation of the President of Poland of 6 March 1928 "on the State Police",[1] when the organization of the institution was finally established and in this form it lasted until September 1939.

The Main Headquarters of the State Police was located in the Zamoyski Palace 67 Nowy Świat street in Warsaw.

[2] Following the regaining of independence by Poland after World War I, there the need to establish unified police force arose.

According to the previously prepared national defense plan, the police were to be transformed into a "military security service corps" additionally performing anti-sabotage and infrastructure protection functions.

Due to the incomprehensible activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (some authors even speak of sabotage) during the Invasion of Poland, the police corps was not included in the defense system.

This unit ended up in Romania in the town of Băile Gavora northwest of Bucharest near Râmnicu Vâlcea.

The structure of the Blue Police was both tolerated and to a high degree controlled by the Polish Underground State through the National Security Corps.

169 officers who served in the XII District of the State Police (Pomeranian) based in Toruń during the interwar period are buried in Miednoje.

Formally, the State Police Corps was dissolved by the regulation of the Home Council of Ministers of 1 August 1944.

Following the end of the war and the establishment of the Polish People's Republic, the Citizens' Militia became the principle police body of the communist state.

Stefania Sempołowska, the author of the report "In Prisons", shared the same opinion, in which she wrote, among other things, that "torture usually accompanies police investigations in the Borderlands, and is not uncommon in the centre of the country".

[9] In 1933, at a rally in Piasek Wielkie organized on the occasion of the harvest festival, attended by Wincenty Witos, during a police intervention, one of the farmers from the village of Młyny was killed and several others were injured.

Mounted officer of the State Police, 1934
An officer directing traffic on Nowy Świat Street in Warsaw , 1929
Ceremonial celebration of the 3rd anniversary of the establishment of the Reserve Police Group in Warsaw. The Commander-in-Chief of the State Police, General Kordian Józef Zamorski (saluting), walks in front of the reserve candidates, April 1939
A Warsaw policeman talking to American journalist Julien Bryan in September 1939.
Miners' wives accompanied by officers waiting for the striking workers in the Klimontów mine, 1933
Two officers of the Women's Police escort a detained juvenile to a police detention center. In the background, the building of the so-called Main Temporary Railway Station on Chmielna Street in Warsaw, August 1939.
Reserve Police Unit designed to suppress street riots and demonstrations. The police were initially equipped with French helmets model 15, later with German Stahlhelms (pictured), metal armour protecting the torso and metal shields. Photo from the 1930s.