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Policja is the generic name for the police
Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
 in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
. The Polish police force was known as policja throughout the Second Polish Republic
Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II....
 (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

Transportation
Today, most common types include various models from Škoda
Škoda Auto

?koda Auto is an automotive industry in the Czech Republic. In 1991, it became a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group....
, Volkswagen
Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passenger Cars, also known as VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany and is the original as well as the largest brand by sales volume within the Volkswagen Group....
, Opel
Opel

Adam Opel Gesellschaft mit beschr?nkter Haftung is a Germany automaker, part of General Motors.The company was founded on 21 January, 1863, and began making automobiles in 1899....
, steadily phased out FSO Polonez
FSO Polonez

The FSO Polonez is a Poland motor vehicle produced from 1978 to 2002. The car name comes from the Polish dance, polonaise....
 (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.






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Policja is the generic name for the police
Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
 in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
. The Polish police force was known as policja throughout the Second Polish Republic
Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II....
 (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

Transportation


Today, most common types include various models from Škoda
Škoda Auto

?koda Auto is an automotive industry in the Czech Republic. In 1991, it became a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group....
, Volkswagen
Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passenger Cars, also known as VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany and is the original as well as the largest brand by sales volume within the Volkswagen Group....
, Opel
Opel

Adam Opel Gesellschaft mit beschr?nkter Haftung is a Germany automaker, part of General Motors.The company was founded on 21 January, 1863, and began making automobiles in 1899....
, steadily phased out FSO Polonez
FSO Polonez

The FSO Polonez is a Poland motor vehicle produced from 1978 to 2002. The car name comes from the Polish dance, polonaise....
 (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


Handguns:
  • Walther P99
    Walther P99

    The P99 is a semi-automatic pistol developed by the Germany company Walther arms of Ulm for law enforcement, security forces and the civilian shooting market as a replacement for the Walther P5 and the Walther P88....
     (manufactured in Poland in Lucznik Arms Factory
    Lucznik Arms Factory

    Lucznik Arms Factory is a Poland enterprise from Radom. The company is producing Weapon. In the past it used to produce non-military equipment, most notably sewing machines and typewriters, but those branches were deemed unprofitable and dropped in 2000....
     under licence
  • Glock-17
  • Glock-19
  • Glock-26
  • P-83 Wanad
    P-83 Wanad

    The P-83 Wanad is a 9 mm Polish semi-automatic pistol, chambered for the 9x18mm Makarov cartridge and designed by Ryszard Chelmicki and Marian Gryszkiewicz of the state research institute Osrodek Badawczo-Rozwojowy in Radom....
     (almost phased out)
  • P-64 (phased out and stored)
Sub-machine guns
  • PM-84 Glauberyt
    PM-84 Glauberyt

    The PM-84 Glauberyt is a Polish submachine gun. It is a personal weapon intended for combat and self-defense at ranges up to 150 m with single shot or fully automatic fire mode....
  • 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
    Heckler & Koch G36

    The G36 is a Germany 5.56x45mm NATO assault rifle, designed in the early 1990s by Heckler & Koch and accepted into service with the Bundeswehr in 1997, replacing the 7.62x51mm NATO Heckler & Koch G3 automatic rifle....
    (limited use)
  • AKMS
  • HK-416 (limited use)


Sniper rifles
  • SVD
  • SAKO
    SAKO

    SAKO, Limited is a Finland firearm manufacturer located in Riihim?ki.It was formed on 1 June 1927 from the Suojeluskuntain Yliesikunnan Asepaja and moved from Helsinki to Riihim?ki....
     TRG-21 (also newer variants)


Historical secret police organizations

  • Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa
    Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa

    Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnetrznych , or just SB, was the Intelligence agencies and secret police established in the People's Republic of Poland in 1956....
     (SB)


See also

  • Milicja Obywatelska
    Milicja Obywatelska

    Milicja Obywatelska was a state police institution in the People's Republic of Poland. It was created in 1944 by Soviet-sponsored PKWN, effectively replacing the pre-war police force....
     (MO)
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration of the Republic of Poland (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnetrznych i Administracji)
  • Polish Police Headquarters
    Polish Police Headquarters

    Polish Police Headquarters is a central authority of law enforcement in Poland. Its goal is to provide public security and order. It is run by Chief of Police, who is a subordinate to the Polish Minister of Internal Affairs....


External links



Further reading

  • Andrzej Kremplewski, , in András Kádár (ed.), Police in Transition: Essays on the Police Forces in Transition Countries, Central European University Press, 2001, ISBN 9639241156