The Police Solidarity trade union has sent an open letter to the commander-in-chief of the Polish police, general inspector Marek Boroń, asking him to explain the legal footing of last Friday's operation at the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw and to publicly back the officers who took part. The letter is signed by the union's chair, Jacek Łukasik, according to WP Wiadomości.
The union's move follows a night of heightened tension around the tribunal building that has left rank-and-file officers worried about what comes next — whether scrutiny from prosecutors or a change of governing power after the next election.
Why it matters
The letter turns a dispute about one night's policing into a question about who protects officers who carry out orders. Łukasik told WP Wiadomości that officers want a clear legal reading of whether their actions at the tribunal were lawful, and whether they could later be exposed to criminal liability. He said lawyers consider the legal grounds cited by Anna Korwin-Piotrowska — the government's plenipotentiary for the tribunal's organisation, who spoke to Polsat on Saturday — to be questionable.
According to WP Wiadomości, Korwin-Piotrowska said the threat arose after the tribunal's president arrived at the building, which happened at around 1 a.m. The union chair said it is unclear whether officers could face prosecution once the political situation changes or documents are reviewed.
What the union is asking for
In the letter, Łukasik asks Boroń and the police's senior leadership to take the steps needed to clarify the situation, including a public appearance by the commander in which he states where the force stands. WP Wiadomości quotes the letter as calling for "necessary actions" and a public position from the chief.
The union also raises a staffing concern. Officers sent to serve in Warsaw, it says, were largely young functionaries completing their professional adaptation after the basic course, without the experience needed to secure an event of this kind.
Łukasik wrote that the union has received numerous accounts from officers across different regional commands about legal doubts over police activity at the tribunal, including possible interference with the work of a constitutional state body and the possibility that offences under Articles 127, 128 and 231 of the Criminal Code were committed.
Officers say they feel exposed
WP Wiadomości reports that morale inside the force is poor and that officers in Warsaw have described a sense of taking part in something they believe was not lawful. Łukasik told the outlet that no one from the Warsaw city command or the national headquarters has spoken beyond terse social media statements, and that this silence is what the union is missing.
He argued that the justice minister has no right to direct how police operate, and that officers have families worried about them and views of their own, but serve in uniform and follow orders. What they want to know, he said, is whether they will be protected — and he pointed to the border episode, when he said officers were first praised and later blamed.
The union chair said the situation needs to be calmed and that commanders should say plainly that they stand behind their officers. In his view the whole operation was badly prepared, and he said it remains uncertain whether any offence occurred at the tribunal, adding that blocking judges or parliamentarians from entering is also highly doubtful.
A demanding fortnight ahead
The letter lands at a busy moment for the force. All Saints' Day falls on Sunday and All Souls' Day on Monday, and Independence Day follows on 11 November — a sequence that will require substantial deployments. WP Wiadomości notes that in conditions of raised tension and deepening polarisation, provocations and disturbances are a real risk.
Watch whether Boroń responds publicly and in what terms, and whether prosecutors signal any interest in reviewing the tribunal deployment.
