There were soldiers from the front in Poland. The police chief talks about the risk
The Chief Commander of the Police, General Marek Boroń, sees numerous challenges that the Polish police will face after the end of the war in Ukraine. In an interview for “Gazeta Wyborcza”, he called threats by name and did not hide the fact that specialized services would be needed to combat them.
Gen. Marek Boroń assured in the first sentence that the Polish services know what criminal groups are preparing for, waiting for the end of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. He talked about actions taken now, such as the fight against drug and weapons smuggling from the front. He emphasized, however, that weapons are still needed by soldiers, so they do not flow widely to our country. This will change only after peace is announced.
Will there be a repeat of the Balkans after the war in Ukraine?
– We observed similar stories – although on a smaller scale – in the 1990s during the civil war in the Balkans, he recalled. He also emphasized that criminals would be interested not only in drugs and weapons, but also in funds for the reconstruction of Ukraine. – We must be prepared to detect cases of money laundering as well as corruption – emphasized Boroń.
– The scale of what happened in the Balkans was completely different. We must be aware that sooner or later many former soldiers from the front will appear in Poland because they have families here. They will also come with mental and psychological problems after war experiences. Not always and not everyone will have proper medical or psychological care, he warned.
Polish police are preparing for the end of the war in Ukraine
The Chief Commander of the Police assured that the services in our country are observing and investigating criminal groups that will try to locate in Poland. – We are preparing for this. Starting with investments such as the purchase of special bulletproof vests with Kevlar inserts for patrol services or road traffic – he mentioned.
– We are also modifying the organization of the police. We remember how we managed to dismantle the gangs operating in Poland in the 1990s, including: thanks to the creation of the Central Bureau of Investigation. Today we want to create the National Bureau of Investigation by combining the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime, he said.
Gen. Boroń also drew attention to crime centered around groups of hooligans. He assured that the president’s past did not change anything in this fact. – We do our thing. And our determination in combating criminal groups associated with the hooligan community is the same. Regardless of whether someone is now trying to add an ideology to it, that they have a president who in some way previously participated and supported these circles, it does not slow us down – he emphasized.
