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Jurisprudence of the military District Court in Gdańsk in the criminal cases between 1945-1955 against Public Security Office (UBP) and Citizens' Militia (MO) officers
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(16) (2018), pages: 297-317
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
One of the tasks that were put before the military regional courts (WSR) at the time when they were brought to life was the case law in criminal cases, which concerned officers of the socalled repression apparatus of Peoples’ Poland. In the presented article author was trying to present in the descriptive and statistical form the case law in criminal cases. Out of 1648 defendants of MO, UBP and Prison Service (SW), whose cases were sent to WSR in Gdańsk, only 934 were convicted. The allegations against them most often concerned cases of abuse of power for personal gain, official and sentry crime, robbery and various acts that “stained” the honour of an officer of the state security apparatus(often crimes were committed under the influence of alcohol). Only few of the UBP, MO and SW officers faced the military court for torturing, beating or mistreating suspects or convicts. This was because the goal of “popular authority” was not generally to fight crime among the employees of the repression apparatus, but to search for the “element of reaction” in the structures of Ministry of Public Security and its elimination. Also many cases related to the abuse done by officers did not even reach the military regional courts.
Keywords
judiciary • officers • jurisdiction • Gdańsk • accused • convicted • court • prosecutors sądownictwo • funkcjonariusze • orzecznictwo • Gdańsk • oskarżeni • skazani • prokuratura • sąd
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