Problemy żandarmerii Korpusu Ochrony Pogranicza z marynarzami Flotylli Pińskiej w 1927 r. Przyczynek do historii formacji w świetle dokumentów żandarmerii KOP
Problems of the Border Protection Corps military police with the seamen of the Flotilla of Pińsk in 1927. Contribution to the history of the unit in view of the BPC military police documents

Summary/Abstract: The Border Protection Corps (1924–1939) was a special military formation created to protect the border and ensure safety in the Eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. The BPC soldiers protected borders with the USSR, Lithuania, Latvia, and since 1927 also sections of borders with Romania and Germany, as well as with Hungary in 1939. In March 1927, the BPC Military Police Battalion was established within the structures of the unit. Platoons were created at every brigade or regiment, and a military police post – at every battalion. The main task of the MP was military and police service for the units and soldiers in the area protected by the BPC, as well as in the area where the units where quartered – so as to keep order and discipline. In the unit’s area there were garrisons of the BPC as well as mixed garrisons where Polish Army and even Navy units were also stationed. In August 1927, in the area controlled by the post at the 17th Battalion of BPC in Dawidgródek, incidents involving seamen of the Pińsk Flotilla took place. Reports of the BPC military police kept in the Archives of the Border Guards in Szczecin became the basis of the article devoted to the discipline level of the seamen of the flotilla and their wrangles with the BPC military police.

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