Abstract
Poland regained its independence in 1918 after more than a hundred years of tripartite occupation by Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary. The main challenge faced by the new Polish state was to create an efficient system of governing, including the establishment of policing bodies. This task was complicated by the history of antagonism between the population and the police of the three former occupying powers, which produced a general animosity towards any institution charged with maintaining order. In these adverse conditions, the police of the Polish Second Republic were born. The period 1918–22 was characterized by the search for the adequate legal and political solutions for policing the fledgling republic, as well as the pressing problem of protecting the Polish state from its neighbors, which led to the militarization of the police during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21.KeywordsState PolicePolice OfficerOrganize CrimePolice ForceInternal AffairThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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