Ministry of the Interior and Administration
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The Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Template:Langx) is an administration structure controlling main administration and security branches of the Polish government. After the 2011 Polish parliamentary elections, it was transformed into two ministries: Ministry of Interior (Minister: Jacek Cichocki) and Ministry of Administration and Digitization (Minister: Michał Boni). It was recreated in late 2015.
History and function
The ministry was founded in 1918 as the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych). It has gone through several reforms, including partial splits and mergers, throughout its history.
Following the abolishing of the Ministry of Public Security in 1954, auxiliary departments, including departmental hospitals, nurseries, and the "Konsumy" retail chain, were transferred from the MBP to the Ministry of Interior, headed by Władysław Wicha. First of all, the Ministry of Internal Affairs took over the competences related to the resident registration and registration of the population, passport matters (which were soon returned to the security service), supervision over the Citizens' Militia, ORMO, KBW, and the Border Protection Force as well as the State Fire Service and the Prison Service.[1]
On 14 July 1983 The Act "on the office of the Minister of Internal Affairs and the scope of activities of the bodies subordinate to him" was adopted; the Voivodeship Militsiya Headquarters (Template:Langx) were replaced with Voivodeship Offices for Internal Affairs (Template:Langx), and similar steps were taken at the district and regional levels.
During a reform of the Polish government in 1996, the administration branch was merged into the Ministry and it was renamed to its current name (on 24 December).
Powers and responsibilities
Traditionally, it is one of the most important governmental cabinet positions in Poland,[2]
The ministry is responsible for the following:
- The general interior security of the country, with respect to criminal acts or natural catastrophes
- including the major law-enforcement forces (see law enforcement in Poland)
- the Polish National Police (Policja)
- the Polish Border Guard (Straż Graniczna)
- Civil defence
- the State Fire Brigade (Straż Pożarna)
- Search and rescue and the oversight of ambulance services
- including the major law-enforcement forces (see law enforcement in Poland)
- the granting of identity documents (Polish passports, identity cards) and driving licenses through the network of voivodeships
- relations between the central government and local governments (except in the case of regional development, which is undertaken by the Ministry of Regional Development)
- logistics and organization of political elections, at the national and voivodeship levels (but the results of the elections are overseen by the Supreme Court of Poland)[3]
- regulation of immigration and preventing illegal immigration
- integration and registration of legal immigrants
While the ministry of the Interior supervises police forces, it does not supervise criminal enquiries; criminal enquiries are conducted under the supervision of the judiciary.
The Ministry's headquarters was located on the Stefan Batory Street, south of Warsaw's city centre and the governmental district which surrounds the Belweder. The Ministry could be referred to by its initials 'MSWiA'.
The last Minister of the Interior and Administration before it was split in 2011 was Jerzy Miller.
List of ministers
Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)
Communist era (1944–1989)
| Minister | Term of office | Party | Prime minister | |||
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| Minister of Public Security | ||||||
| File:Stanisław Radkiewicz (cropped).jpg | Stanisław Radkiewicz Template:SfnTemplate:Efn |
21 July 1944 | 7 December 1954 | Polish United Workers' Party |
Osóbka-Morawski (PKWN, RTRP, TRJN) | |
| Cyrankiewicz | ||||||
| Bierut | ||||||
| Cyrankiewicz | ||||||
| Minister of Internal Affairs | ||||||
| No image availableScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Władysław Wicha Template:Sfn |
7 December 1954 | 12 December 1964 | Polish United Workers' Party |
Cyrankiewicz | |
| File:Mieczysław Moczar.jpg | Mieczysław Moczar Template:Sfn |
12 December 1964 | 15 July 1968 | |||
| File:Kazimierz Świtała.jpg | Kazimierz Świtała Template:Sfn |
15 July 1968 | 13 February 1971 | |||
| Jaroszewicz | ||||||
| File:Franciszek Szlachcic.jpg | Franciszek Szlachcic Template:Sfn |
13 February 1971 | 22 December 1971 | |||
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22 December 1971 | 28 February 1973Template:Efn | |||
| File:Stanisław Kowalczyk.jpg | Stanisław Kowalczyk Template:Sfn |
22 March 1973 | 8 October 1980 | |||
| Babiuch | ||||||
| Pińkowski ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||||
| Pińkowski | ||||||
| File:Miroslaw Milewski PZPR.jpg | Mirosław Milewski Template:Sfn |
8 October 1980 | 31 July 1981 | |||
| Jaruzelski | ||||||
| File:Czeslaw Kiszczak.jpg | Czesław Kiszczak Template:Sfn |
31 July 1981 | 6 July 1990 | |||
| Messner | ||||||
| Rakowski | ||||||
| Himself | ||||||
| Mazowiecki | ||||||
Republic of Poland (after 1989)
See also
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Notes
References
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