Civilian law enforcement agency of Nazi-occupied Poland
The Blue Police
Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement[1]
Police street check in Kraków overseen by German Order Police
Active
December 17, 1939 (1939-12-17)[2] – August 27, 1944 (1944-08-27)
Country
Nazi Germany (General Government)
Agency
Ordnungspolizei
Type
Auxiliary police
Commanders
Notable commanders
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, HSSPF in General Government
Herbert Becker [de], BdO in General Government
Hans Köchlner, inspector (until 1942)
Roman Sztaba, liasion officer
The Blue Police (Polish: Granatowa policja, lit. Navy-blue police), was the police during the Second World War in the General Government, semicolonial entity on a territory 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 (1939-10-30) 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.
^ abcMarek 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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