Polish Police
The Polish Police is the national law enforcement agency of the Republic of Poland, operating under the Ministry of the Interior and Administration. It is responsible for maintaining public order, preventing and investigating crime, and traffic control. The force is led by the Chief Commander of Police, appointed by the government, and is organised as a single centralised structure headed by the National Police Headquarters in Warsaw, which coordinates regional and municipal commands across the country.
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Two Turkish suspects detained in Germany after Starlink station arson in Poland
Polish police released two Turkish nationals the day after they allegedly set fire to a Starlink ground station in Wola Krobowska, Masovian Voivodeship, allowing them to travel on to Germany, where they were detained on 12 October along with a third Turkish suspect. Surveillance cameras recorded two men pouring an accelerant on the station's control cabinet on the evening of 23 September. Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into sabotage and a terrorist act on behalf of a foreign intelligence service, and Polish officials have publicly linked the attack to Russian intelligence services.
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Poland receives information on alleged assassination plot targeting PM Tusk and defence minister
Polish authorities announced on 11 October that police had received information about a possible assassination attempt on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Ministers Tomasz Siemoniak and Marcin Kierwiński ordered a security response, and an inter-agency meeting was scheduled at the Counter-Terrorism Centre of Poland's Internal Security Agency.
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Ukrainian citizen attacks Benedictine monastery in Poland, killing at least one priest
A 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen carried out a knife attack on the morning of 24 September at a Benedictine sisters' monastery in Jarosław, in southeastern Poland, killing at least one priest and injuring five other people. The attacker was detained at the scene. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk both responded, with Zelensky calling it a "horrible crime" and Tusk pledging full enforcement of Polish law.
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Tusk calls fire at Polish drone plant supplying Ukraine's army deliberate sabotage
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated on 2 September that a fire at the Grupa WB (WB Electronics) drone factory in Skarżysko-Kamienna, which supplies unmanned systems to the Polish and Ukrainian armed forces, was a deliberate act of arson and sabotage. A separate fire at a JFG Composites aviation-components facility in Lublin remains under investigation, with Tusk saying arson has not been proven but cannot be ruled out. Poland's National Prosecutor's Office has opened a terrorism-related investigation into the Grupa WB blaze, and Tusk warned of intensified Russian efforts to destabilise Central and Eastern Europe.