Ewolucja zadań policyjnych wykonywanych przez służby specjalne na przykładzie Urzędu Ochrony Państwa oraz Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego

Abstract

In addition to intelligence and counterintelligence tasks, Polish special services also carry out police tasks. Police tasks should be understood as detecting and prosecuting perpetrators of crimes specified in the material property of special services. The purpose of the article is to present the evolution of police tasks dealt with by Polish civil special services on the example of the Office of State Protection and its successor to the Internal Security Agency. Police tasks include, among others detecting and prosecuting perpetrators of espionage, terrorism and corruption crimes. At the same time, special services also deal with crimes that violate the economic foundations of the state or other crimes that threaten the security of the state. The author attempts to answer the question whether the tasks and legal norms in this area are sufficiently defined and whether they cause interpretation problems in the classification of criminogenic phenomena that should be of interest to special services. In conclusion, the author states that these tasks require the legislator to specification of material property from which it would be clear to which category of case related to the prosecution and detection of perpetrators of crime the Internal Security Agency was established. This will avoid not only conflicts of competence between services, but also specify the authority responsible for any omissions in taking the measures.