State Protection Service
Law enforcement agency
| State Protection Service Służba Ochrony Państwa | |
|---|---|
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| Abbreviation | SOP |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 2018 |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Poland and abroad on official state visits of VIPs |
| Website | |
| https://www.sop.gov.pl/pl/ | |
The State Protection Service (Polish: Służba Ochrony Państwa) is a Polish uniformed service which provides VIP security for the Polish government.[1] It was formed on 1 February 2018 as a successor to the Government Protection Bureau.[2]
History
On December 8, 2017, the Parliament passed the Law on the State Protection Service, the Senate approved it without amendments on December 21, and on January 11, 2018, the President signed it.[3]
Subjects of protection
- President of the Republic of Poland and his family
- Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland and his family
- First Lady of Poland
- Marshal of the Sejm
- Marshal of the Senate
- Deputy Prime Ministers
- Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Minister of Interior and Administration
- Minister of National Defence
- Former Presidents
- Former Prime Ministers
- Other individuals by decree of the Minister of Interior
- Foreign heads of state, governments, representatives, and diplomats while on Polish soil
Gallery
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SOP officer guarding the area of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland -
SOP snipers guarding the area of Piłsudski Square during President's speech. -
SOP officer guarding Presidential Palace, Warsaw -
SOP officers in different uniforms -
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki surrounded in the back by SOP officers -
SOP motorcade -
President Andrzej Duda surrounded by SOP officers.
References
- ^ Państwa, Służba Ochrony. "Przeznaczenie i zadania". Służba Ochrony Państwa (in Polish). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "Służba Ochrony Państwa w miejsce BOR. Prezydent podpisał ustawę". www.tvp.info (in Polish). 11 January 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "Służba Ochrony Państwa w miejsce BOR. Prezydent podpisał ustawę". 11 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
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Polish intelligence agencies
- Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA)
- Foreign Intelligence Agency (AW)
- Internal Security Agency (ABW)
- National Police Headquarters (KGP)
- Bureau of Criminal Intelligence and Information (BWiIK)
- Corresponding departments of the Voivodeship Police Commands
- Central Investigations Bureau of the Police (CBŚP)
- Operations and Investigations Directorate of the Border Guard Headquarters (ZOŚ KGSG)
- Tax and Customs Service (SCS)
- General Inspector of Financial Information (GIIF)
- State Protection Service (SOP)
- Military Intelligence Service (SWW)
- Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW)
- Polish IMINT Centre (ORO)
- 12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Base (12.BBSP)
- National Centre for Cyberspace Security (NCBC)
- Criminal Directorate of the Military Gendarmerie Headquarters (ZK KGŻW)
- Reconnaissance Group of 3rd Ship Flotilla (gOR 3.FO)
- Centre for Radioelectronic Combat Reconnaissance and Support ″Lieutenant Colonel Jan Kowalewski″ (CRiWWRE)
- 2nd Przasnysz Radioelectronic Reconnaissance Regiment (2.ORel)
- 6th Oliwa Radioelectronic Reconnaissance Regiment ″Admiral Arendt Dickman″ (6.ORel)
- Military Unit NIL "Brigadier General August Emil Fieldorf «Nil»" (JW NIL)
- Ministry of Public Security - Department of Security (MBP-UB)
- Security Service (SB)
- Office for State Protection (UOP)
- Internal Revenue Intelligence
- Polish Military Organisation (POW)
- Second Department of Polish General Staff
- Cipher Bureau
- Polish Agency of Trade Information
- Estezet
- Border Protection Corps
- Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army
- Internal Military Service (WSW)
- Military Information Services (WSI)
- National Centre for Cryptology (NCK)
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