Ministry of the Interior and Administration facts for kids
Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji | |
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The seat of the ministry on Stefan Batory Street, Warsaw |
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Headquarters | ul. Stefana Batorego 5, Warsaw 52°12′40″N 21°01′00″E / 52.21111°N 21.01667°E |
Agency executive |
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Parent agency | Council of Ministers |
Website | gov.pl/mswia |
Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Polish: Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji) is an administration structure controlling main administration and security branches of the Polish government. After Parliamentary Election on 9 October 2011 was transformed for two ministries: Ministry of Interior (Minister: Jacek Cichocki) and Ministry of Administration and Digitization (Minister: Michał Boni). It was recreated in late 2015.
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History and function
The ministry was founded in 1918 as the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych). During a reform of the Polish government in 1996 the administration branch was merged into the Ministry and it was renamed to its current name (on 24 December).
That was one of the most important governmental cabinet positions in Poland, The ministry was responsible for the following:
- The general interior security of the country, with respect to criminal acts or natural catastrophes
- including the major law-enforcement forces (see law enforcement in Poland)
- the Polish National Police (Policja)
- the Polish Border Guard (Straż Graniczna)
- Civil defence
- the State Fire Brigade (Straż Pożarna)
- Search and rescue and the oversight of ambulance services
- including the major law-enforcement forces (see law enforcement in Poland)
- the granting of identity documents (Polish passports, identity cards) and driving licenses through the network of voivodeships
- relations between the central government and local governments (except in the case of regional development, which is undertaken by the Ministry of Regional Development
- logistics and organization of political elections, at the national and voivodeship levels (but the results of the elections are overseen by the Supreme Court of Poland)
- regulation of immigration and preventing illegal immigration
- integration and registration of legal immigrants
While the ministry of the Interior supervises police forces, it does not supervise criminal enquiries; criminal enquiries are conducted under the supervision of the judiciary.
The Ministry's headquarters was located on the Stefan Batory Street, south of Warsaw's city centre and the governmental district which surrounds the Belweder. The Ministry could be referred to by its initials 'MSWiA'.
The last Minister of the Interior and Administration before it was split in 2011 was Jerzy Miller.
List of ministers
Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)
Minister | Term of office | Party | Prime minister | |||
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Minister of Internal Affairs | ||||||
Stanisław Thugutt |
17 November 1918 | 16 January 1919 | PSL "Wyzwolenie" | Jędrzej Moraczewski | ||
Stanisław Wojciechowski |
16 January 1919 | 9 June 1920 | Independent | Ignacy Paderewski | ||
Leopold Skulski | ||||||
Józef Kuczyński Chief executive |
23 June 1920 | 24 July 1920 | Independent | Władysław Grabski | ||
Leopold Skulski |
24 July 1920 | 28 June 1921 | National People's Union | Wincenty Witos | ||
Władysław Raczkiewicz |
28 June 1921 | 13 September 1921 | Independent | |||
Stanisław Downarowicz |
19 September 1921 | 5 March 1922 | Independent | Antoni Ponikowski | ||
Antoni Kamieński |
10 March 1922 | 11 December 1922 | Independent | |||
Artur Śliwiński | ||||||
Julian Nowak | ||||||
Ludwik Darowski Chief executive |
11 December 1922 | 14 December 1922 | Independent | |||
Władysław Sikorski |
16 December 1922 | 26 May 1923 | Independent | Himself | ||
Władysław Kiernik |
28 May 1923 | 15 December 1923 | PSL "Piast" | Wincenty Witos | ||
Władysław Sołtan |
19 December 1923 | 21 March 1924 | Independent | Władysław Grabski | ||
Zygmunt Hübner |
21 March 1924 | 17 November 1924 | Independent | |||
Cyryl Ratajski |
17 November 1924 | 14 (15) June 1925 | ? | |||
Władysław Raczkiewicz |
14 (20) June 1925 | 5 May 1926 | Independent | |||
Aleksander Skrzyński | ||||||
Stefan Smólski |
10 May 1926 | 15 May 1926 | Polish Christian Democratic Party |
Wincenty Witos | ||
Kazimierz Młodzianowski |
15 May 1926 | 30 September 1926 | Independent | Kazimierz Bartel | ||
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski |
2 October 1926 | 7 December 1929 | Independent | Józef Piłsudski | ||
Kazimierz Bartel | ||||||
Kazimierz Świtalski | ||||||
Henryk Józewski |
29 December 1929 | 3 June 1930 | Independent | Kazimierz Bartel | ||
Walery Sławek | ||||||
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski |
3 June 1930 | 22 June 1931 | Independent | |||
Józef Piłsudski | ||||||
Walery Sławek | ||||||
Aleksander Prystor | ||||||
Bronisław Pieracki |
22 June 1931 | 15 June 1934 | Independent (BBWR) |
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Janusz Jędrzejewicz | ||||||
Leon Kozłowski | ||||||
Leon Kozłowski |
16 June 1934 | 28 June 1934 | Independent (BBWR) |
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Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski |
28 June 1934 | 12 October 1935 | Independent (BBWR) |
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Walery Sławek | ||||||
Władysław Raczkiewicz |
13 October 1935 | 15 May 1936 | Independent (BBWR) |
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski | ||
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski |
16 May 1936 | 30 September 1939 | Independent | Himself |
Comunist era (1944–1989)
Minister | Term of office | Party | Prime minister | |||
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Minister of Public Security | ||||||
Stanisław Radkiewicz |
21 July 1944 | 7 December 1954 | Polish United Workers' Party |
Osóbka-Morawski (PKWN, RTRP, TRJN) |
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Cyrankiewicz | ||||||
Bierut | ||||||
Cyrankiewicz | ||||||
Minister of Internal Affairs | ||||||
No image avalible | Władysław Wicha |
7 December 1954 | 12 December 1964 | Polish United Workers' Party |
Cyrankiewicz | |
Mieczysław Moczar |
12 December 1964 | 15 July 1968 | ||||
Kazimierz Świtała |
15 July 1968 | 13 February 1971 | ||||
Jaroszewicz | ||||||
Franciszek Szlachcic |
13 February 1971 | 22 December 1971 | ||||
No image avalible | Wiesław Ociepka |
22 December 1971 | 28 February 1973 | |||
Stanisław Kowalczyk |
22 March 1973 | 8 October 1980 | ||||
Babiuch | ||||||
Pińkowski Acting |
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Pińkowski | ||||||
Mirosław Milewski |
8 October 1980 | 31 July 1981 | ||||
Jaruzelski | ||||||
Czesław Kiszczak |
31 July 1981 | 6 July 1990 | ||||
Messner | ||||||
Rakowski | ||||||
Himself | ||||||
Mazowiecki |
Republic of Poland (after 1989)
Minister | Term of office | Party | Cabinet | |||
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Minister of Interior | ||||||
Krzysztof Kozłowski |
6 July 1990 | 12 January 1991 | Democratic Union | Mazowiecki | ||
No image avalible | Henryk Majewski |
12 January 1991 | 23 December 1991 | Independent | Bielecki | |
Antoni Macierewicz |
23 December 1991 | 20 June 1992 | Christian National Union | Olszewski | ||
No image avalible | Andrzej Milczanowski |
11 July 1992 | 22 December 1995 | Independent | Suchocka | |
Pawlak | ||||||
Oleksy | ||||||
No image avalible | Jerzy Konieczny |
29 December 1995 | 7 February 1996 | Independent | ||
No image avalible | Zbigniew Siemiątkowski |
7 February 1996 | 31 December 1996 | Democratic Left Alliance | Cimoszewicz | |
Minister of Interior and Administration | ||||||
Leszek Miller |
1 January 1997 | 31 October 1997 | Democratic Left Alliance | Cimoszewicz | ||
No image avalible | Janusz Tomaszewski |
31 October 1997 | 3 September 1999 | Social Movement | Buzek | |
Marek Biernacki |
7 October 1999 | 19 October 2001 | Social Movement | |||
Krzysztof Janik |
19 October 2001 | 21 January 2004 | Democratic Left Alliance | Miller | ||
Józef Oleksy |
21 January 2004 | 21 April 2004 | Democratic Left Alliance | |||
Jerzy Szmajdziński Acting |
21 April 2004 | 2 May 2004 | Democratic Left Alliance | |||
Ryszard Kalisz |
2 May 2004 | 31 October 2005 | Democratic Left Alliance | Belka I | ||
Belka II | ||||||
Ludwik Dorn |
31 October 2005 | 7 February 2007 | Law and Justice | Marcinkiewicz | ||
Kaczyński | ||||||
Janusz Kaczmarek |
8 February 2007 | 7 August 2007 | Independent | |||
Władysław Stasiak |
8 August 2007 | 16 November 2007 | Independent | |||
Grzegorz Schetyna |
16 November 2007 | 13 October 2009 | Civic Platform | Tusk I | ||
Jerzy Miller |
14 October 2009 | 18 November 2011 | Independent | |||
Minister of Interior | ||||||
Jacek Cichocki |
18 November 2011 | 25 February 2013 | Independent | Tusk II | ||
Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz |
25 February 2013 | 22 September 2014 | Independent | |||
Teresa Piotrowska |
22 September 2014 | 16 November 2015 | Civic Platform | Kopacz | ||
Minister of Interior and Administration | ||||||
Mariusz Błaszczak |
16 November 2015 | 9 January 2018 | Law and Justice | Szydło | ||
Morawiecki I | ||||||
Joachim Brudziński |
9 January 2018 | 4 June 2019 | Law and Justice | |||
Elżbieta Witek |
4 June 2019 | 9 August 2019 | Law and Justice | |||
Mariusz Kamiński |
9 August 2019 | 27 November 2023 | Law and Justice | |||
Morawiecki II | ||||||
Paweł Szefernaker |
27 November 2023 | 13 December 2023 | Law and Justice | Morawiecki III | ||
Marcin Kierwiński |
13 December 2023 | 13 May 2024 | Civic Platform | Tusk III | ||
Tomasz Siemoniak |
13 May 2024 | Incumbent | Civic Platform |