page_title: Policja (Poland)
section_title: Organisation
hierarchical_section_title: Policja (Poland) / Organisation
caption_attribution_description: English: Polish police vehicles parked outside the Wawel Palace/Fortress on the day of the Polish president's funeral 18. April 2010
context_page_description: Policja is the generic name for the police in Poland. The Polish police force was known as policja throughout the Second Polish Republic, and in modern post-communist Republic of Poland since 1990. Its current size is 100,000 officers and ca. 25,000 civilian employees. Among the branches in the force are: Criminal Service, Traffic Police Service, Prevention Service and Supporting Service. Most towns and some villages have their own city guards, which supervise public order and road safety. However, city guards have jurisdiction only over misdemeanors and in cases of crimes may serve only in a supportive role for the state police.
context_section_description: The Polish Police is a centralised police force, organised under one central command in Warsaw and with all officers assigned to one of 17 voivodeship/municipal operations' commands, except in the case that they are specialists working independently for the national commandant.
caption: Lesser Poland Police vehicles parked outside the Wawel Castle in Kraków during the state funeral of president Kaczyński and his wife
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