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submitted 8 months ago by Stamau123@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The interior minister in Poland’s new government has announced that police officers will no longer cover their faces and has declared that the force “will not serve as a security agency” anymore for Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the former ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party.

“Yesterday, the new police chief…introduced an order ending face veiling during interventions,” Marcin Kierwiński told broadcaster TVN, saying that this was part of “the process of restoring trust in the Polish police”.

Under the PiS government, which ruled Poland from 2015 until earlier this month, the police recorded the largest decline in public trust among major institutions, according to regular polling by IBRiS. The police were regularly accused of using excessive force and of being under political influence.

Critics in particular noted a constant police presence around the home of Kaczyński in Warsaw, even when the PiS chairman held no formal state position. During some anti-government protests, hundreds of officers were deployed to the area.

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[-] Aurix@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

I hope this will become international law that police has to be identifiable by face or ID on request and can be recorded, but not published, at all times during public service. Germany does none. Not even ID, which varies by region. I see it as militia, because unidentifiable, unrecordable armed groups are not for safety and not under control.

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 23 points 8 months ago

Bruh Poland is handling its cops better than France

We still can't freely publish images of ours AND they're all masked AND they routinely not wear their mandatory ID on their vests

[-] casmael@startrek.website 15 points 8 months ago

I still can’t get over the fact that the cristo-fascist party is quite fucking literally called PiS fucking hell why does it always boil down to piss

[-] sznowicki@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Great. Now please make Wroclaw cops stop killing people.

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