Ministry of the Interior and Administration ( pl, 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

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(Minister: Michał Boni). It was recreated in late 2015.

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

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, 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) ***

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and the oversight of ambulance services * the granting of identity documents ( Polish passports, identity cards) and driving licenses through the network of

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s * 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

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s, 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

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. 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

Ministers of Internal Affairs of the Second Republic of Poland (1918 - 1939)

Ministers of Internal Affairs of Third Polish Republic

* Krzysztof Kozłowski (non-partisan) 6 July 1990 – 14 December 1990 * Henryk Majewski (non-partisan) 12 January 1991 – 5 December 1991 * Antoni Macierewicz 23 December 1991 – 5 June 1992 * Andrzej Milczanowski 11 July 1992 – 22 December 1995 * Jerzy Konieczny 29 December 1995 – 26 January 1996 * Zbigniew Siemiątkowski ( SLD) 15 February 1996 – 4 February 1997 ''Replaced by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration (1997)'' ''Office reestablished (2011)'' * Jacek Cichocki 18 November 2011 – 25 February 2013 *

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25 February 2013 – 22 September 2014 * Teresa Piotrowska ( PO) 22 September 2014 – 16 November 2015 ''Replaced by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration (2015)''

Ministers of Internal Affairs and Administration of Third Polish Republic

* Leszek Miller ( SLD) 1 January 1997 – 17 October 1997 * Janusz Tomaszewski (

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) 31 October 1997 – 3 September 1999 *

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(

) 7 October 1999 – 19 October 2001 *

Krzysztof Janik Krzysztof Jan Janik (pronounced ; born 11 June 1950 in Kielce Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of t ...

( SLD) 19 October 2001 – 21 January 2004 * Józef Oleksy ( SLD) 21 January 2004 – 21 April 2004 * Jerzy Szmajdziński ( SLD) 21 April 2004 – 2 May 2004 * Ryszard Kalisz ( SLD) 2 May 2004 – 31 October 2005 *

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( PiS) 31 October 2005 – 7 February 2007 * Janusz Kaczmarek (''independent'') 8 February 2007 – 8 August 2007 * Władysław Stasiak (''independent'') 8 August 2007 – 16 November 2007 * Grzegorz Schetyna ( PO) 16 November 2007 – 13 October 2009 * Jerzy Miller ( PO) 14 October 2009 – 17 November 2011 ''Replaced by the Minister of Internal Affairs (2011)'' ''Office reestablished (2015)'' * Mariusz Błaszczak ( PIS) 16 November 2015 – 9 January 2018 * Joachim Brudziński ( PIS) 9 January 2018 – 4 June 2019 * Elżbieta Witek ( PIS) 4 June 2019 – 9 August 2019 * Mariusz Kamiński ( PIS) since 14 August 2019https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C496821%2Cprezydent-powolal-mariusza-kaminskiego-na-stanowisko-ministra-spraw

References

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