Przestępstwa funkcjonariuszy Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa na Ziemi Wadowickiej w latach 1945 - 1950 - rekonesans badawczy i wstępny zarys zagadnienia
Crimes of the officers of the Office of Security on Wadowice Land in the years between 1945 – 1950. Research overview and preliminary outline of the issue

Summary/Abstract: The District Office of Public Security in Wadowice was one of the most important institutions of the new political power in Poland between 1945-1956 inthe district of Wadowice. Although it was supposed to uphold public order andsecurity of citizens, its officers committed a number of criminal offenses, fromminor, such as theft or battery, to the strongest, such as rape or murder. Some ofthese crimes stemmed directly from the tasks and the nature of the service ofa totalitarian regime, others were committed by the officers offstage, for personalgain, or even out of pure sense of impunity. During the first five years of the DistrictOffice at least 100 officers served and at least 10 percent of them committed oneoffense, but among these, some committed more than one. This indicates a defectin the process of staff recruitment and a prevalence of political criteria over substantive criteria in the process of workers selection for Office of Security. Witha large rotation of Security Office personnel, such a selection system negatively affected its quality, and the lack of control and lack of punishment, sometimeseven consent to illegal actions, caused the exposure of the worst tendencies andcharacteristic traits in the officers.

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