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Coordination of the Anti-Terror Activities in the Republic of Poland

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Jaloszynski K., Wlodkowic P.

Internal Security

2010

vol. 2(2)

201-210

The article attempts to present solutions concerning coordination of actions carried out by entities responsible for counter-terrorism activities in Poland. The author makes references to solutions applied in this field in the USA and some European countries, in which terror threats are real. A special attention has been put on National Counterterrorism Center, which coordinates anti-terror activities in the USA. Moreover, its main tasks have been presented, as well as state organizations which operate as partners to NCTC and deal with counter-terrorism issues. The author presents also German solutions applied by Federal Criminal Police – BKA. As well as these, the author focuses on English solutions conducted in accordance with the counter-terrorism strategy named CONTEST and French solutions which resulted in creating the Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit (UCLAT), operating under supervision of the National Police Director General.In the article, a special emphasis has also been laid on co-ordination of counter-terrorism activities undertaken in the Republic of Poland after 2011. Much space has been devoted in the article to Interdepartmental Centre for Countering Organised Crime and International Terrorism and to Internal Security Agency’s Anti-Terrorism Centre, which was established much later, i.e. in 2008. Creation of Internal Security Agency’s Anti-Terrorism Centre enabled introduction of counter-terrorism action system, operating on the three-levels, i.e. strategic, operational and tactical. The article presents also the current state of solutions in the field of co-ordination of the anti-terror activities in the Republic of Poland.

Bureau of Antiterrorist Operations — The Polish Police Counter Terrorist Unit as Compared to European Units

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Jaloszynski K., Wlodkowic P.

Internal Security

2010

vol. 2(1)

53-64

The article features the Polish police antiterrorist unit. It tells the story of the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics on 5 Sept. 1972, which is regarded as the beginning of counter-terrorist squads’ history. The article also gives the historical background to creating such units in Poland and discusses the first Polish antiterrorist unit established in 976. Readers’ attention is drawn to the social and political transformations initiated in Poland and introduced in the Eastern Bloc countries in the early 1990’s, which resulted in totalitarian regime being replaced by democracy. The developments at the beginning of the 21st c. - the WTC terrorist attack in New York and the Pentagon attack in Washington - drastically changed the approach to fighting terrorism worldwide and started the analysis of the existing solutions. Following the analysis a decision was taken in Poland to reorganise in 2003 the Warsaw antiterrorist unit into two departments of the Central Bureau of Investigation at the National Police HQ as a functional equivalent of the Central Antiterrorist Unit. At the end of 2006 next steps were taken to rationalise the existing system and to create a strong and efficient antiterrorist unit capable of tackling the challenges and threats from contemporary terrorism. For over two years new solutions were sought for to establish a central antiterrorist unit, and the only reasonable solution turned out to be the Bureau of Antiterrorist Operations at the National Police HQ formed in 2008 as a central counter-terrorist unit.

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