page_title: Police Day
section_title: Poland
hierarchical_section_title: Police Day / By country / Poland
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Święto Policji w Mońkach (21 lipca 2014r.) English: Police holiday in Mońki - 2014
context_page_description: Several nations observe or formerly observed a Police Day to recognize the professional holiday or anniversary of their national police force.
context_section_description: On July 24 every year, the Polish Policja celebrates its Police Day (Święto Policji) as a public holiday, having been in existence since 1995.
  The timeline of previous Police Days are as follows:
  24 July (1919-1944)
  7 October (Day of the Milicja Obywatelska) (1944-1989)
  6 April (1990-1995)
  24 July (1995–Present)
  As a rule, on the eve of the holiday, the Warsaw Metropolitan Police Headquarters conducts ceremony of awarding decorations to policemen. Police Day is also an opportunity to lay wreaths front of plaques and monuments dedicated to the memory of the fallen on duty. On 23 July 2010, a monument in Warsaw was unveiled in honor of police officers who were murdered in the Katyn massacre in 1940. Earlier, on 13 May 2010, the Memorial to the Memory of the Murdered Policemen was unveiled in Poznań, commemorating 395 policemen murdered by the Soviet NKVD and the German Military Administration in 1940. The 100th anniversary of the Polish Police was celebrated on Police Day with a ceremony on Piłsudski Square.
caption: Police officers in Mońki on Police Day in 2010.
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