Polish Police

Polish Police is a centralized, armed and uniformed formation. As many as nearly 100,000 police officers, backed-up by almost 25,000 civilian employees take care of safety and security of citizens and maintain public order. The Polish Police is headed by the Commander-in-Chief of Police, to whom reports the Warsaw Metropolitan Police Commander and 16 provincial police commanders who in turn supervise city and county police chiefs responsible for daily performance of police officers at police stations. The present-day Polish Police is made up of officers performing their duties in criminal, prevention and logistics services; the latter support the activities of the Police in terms of organization, logistics and technology.

The Provincial Police Headquarters in Kielce is an organizational unit of the Police, constituting an auxiliary apparatus with the help of which the Provincial Police Commander in Kielce, acting on behalf of the Świętokrzyskie Voivode or himself, performs the tasks of the Police, specified in the acts and executive regulations issued on their basis, in the field of protection of human safety and maintaining public safety and order in the area of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship.