Back Blou Polisie Afrikaans الشرطة الزرقاء Arabic Польская паліцыя Генэрал-губэрнатарства BE-X-OLD Синя полиция Bulgarian Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement German Granatowa Policja Spanish Police bleue French המשטרה הכחולה של פולין HE Polizia Blu Italian 総督府ポーランド警察 Japanese
| The Blue Police | |
|---|---|
| Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement [1] | |
 Police street check in Kraków overseen by German Order Police | |
| Active | December 17, 1939[2] – August 27, 1944 |
| Country |  Nazi Germany (General Government) |
| Agency | Ordnungspolizei |
| Type | Auxiliary police |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
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The Blue Police (Polish: Granatowa policja, lit. Navy-blue police), was the police during the Second World War in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland. Its official German name was Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement (Polish Police of the General Government; Polish: Policja Polska Generalnego Gubernatorstwa).
The Blue Police officially came into being on 30 October 1939 when Germany drafted Poland's prewar state police officers (Policja Państwowa), organizing local units with German leadership.[1] It was an auxiliary institution tasked with protecting public safety and order in the General Government.[3] The Blue Police, initially employed purely to deal with ordinary criminality, was later also used to counter smuggling, which was an essential element of German-occupied Poland's underground economy.[1]
The organization was officially dissolved and declared disbanded by the Polish Committee of National Liberation on 27 August 1944.[4][5] After a review process, a number of its former members joined the new national policing structure, the Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens' Militia). Others were prosecuted after 1949 under Stalinism.
- ^ a b c Marek Getter (1996). "Policja Polska w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie 1939-1945". Polish Police in the General Government 1939-1945 (in Polish). Przegląd Policyjny nr 1-2. Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Policji w Szczytnie. pp. 1 – , 22. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
Niemieckie władze policyjne nie dowierzały Policji Polskiej. Niezależnie od oficjalnych upomnień, nakazów i gróźb (por. aresztowania w maju 1940 roku) oraz rozciągnięcia nad Policją Polską sądownictwa SS i policji od wiosny 1943 rozpoczęło się poufne sprawdzanie jej przydatności (Überprüfung der nichtdeutschen Polizei), jak też opiniowanie jej poszczególnych funkcjonariuszy.
- ^ Hempel 1990, p. 42.
- ^ "Policja Polska w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie 1939-1945 – Policja Panstwowa". policjapanstwowa.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 29 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
- ^ Edelheit, Abraham J.; Edelheit, Hershel (1991). A World in Turmoil: An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II. Greenwood Press. p. 311. ISBN 0-313-28218-8.
- ^ Burda, Andrzej (1976). Polskie prawo państwowe (in Polish). Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. p. 127.
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