pre-war Polish State Police

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The pre-war Polish State Police was the national law enforcement agency of the Second Polish Republic, responsible for maintaining public order and security across Poland before World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf national law enforcement agency
police force
alsoKnownAs Police of Poland
surface form: Państwowa Policja

Police of Poland
surface form: Polish State Police
areaServed entire territory of the Second Polish Republic
country Second Polish Republic
dissolutionCause Invasion of Poland
surface form: German invasion of Poland in 1939

Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
surface form: Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939
dissolved 1939
employerOf criminal investigators
plainclothes police
police officers
uniformed police
endTime 1939
hadHeadquartersIn Warsaw
historicalContext Second Polish Republic
period between World War I and World War II
jurisdiction national
legalBasis laws of the Second Polish Republic on the State Police
mandate enforcement of administrative regulations
enforcement of criminal law
protection of citizens
protection of state institutions
officialLanguage Polish
operatedIn Poland
oversightBy civil authorities of the Second Polish Republic
partOf internal security system of the Second Polish Republic
precededBy local and municipal police forces of the former partitioning powers
replaced partition-era police structures in Polish territories
responsibleFor border-area policing
crime prevention
criminal investigations
ensuring public security
maintaining public order
traffic control
scopeOfOperations border regions
rural areas
urban areas
startTime 1919
status defunct organization
subordinateTo Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Second Polish Republic
successor occupation police forces established by Germany and the Soviet Union in occupied Poland
timePeriod interwar period
typeOfOrganization centralized police force
used firearms
mounted units
telegraph and telephone communications
uniforms

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Blue Police (Polish police under German command) distinctFrom pre-war Polish State Police
subject surface form: Blue Police
Policja Granatowa distinctFrom pre-war Polish State Police
Polish Police of the General Government distinctFrom pre-war Polish State Police
this entity surface form: pre‑war Polish State Police