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The Division of the IT Operational Records Repository of the PRL Ministry of Internal Affairs Between the Police and the Office for State Protection from 1990–1994 Against the Backdrop of the Separation and Digitisation of the Ministry’s Manual Card Index Files
Piotr Borysiuk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2357-5929
doktorant w Instytucie Historii Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, Vol. 18 (2025), pages: 105-130
Publication date: 2025-12-30
https://doi.org/10.48261/PAIPN251804
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Abstract
This article examines the transfer of the electronic operational repository to the Police by the PRL Ministry of Internal Affairs, and subsequently to the Office for State Protection, in the period from 1990–1994, taking into account the division and digitisation of the Security Service’s manual card indexes. It also takes into account the context of data digitisation at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1991. The focus was primarily on events during two periods: 1990 and 1991–1994. In the first instance, manual card indexes were divided between the Information Technology Bureau of the National Police Headquarters (Central Criminal Card Index, BI KGP), the MSW PESEL Department (Central Address Bureau) and the Records and Archives Bureau of the Office for State Protection (UOP) (Central General Information Card Index). In the case of BI KGP and the MSW PESEL Department, this was intended to facilitate their further digitisation based on their existing and expanding IT technical facilities. However, the UOP Records and Archives Bureau did not at that time have the necessary infrastructure to carry out such activities. Furthermore, that year the IT systems and electronic data of the former Security Service (primarily the Integrated Operational Records System, ZSKO) were transferred to the newly established police force. There may have been two reasons for this decision – either it was a political decision taken at the highest levels of government, or it was influenced by the actions of the police labour unions, which were exceptionally powerful at the time. During the second period under discussion, this situation was rectified – firstly, through provisions in internal departmental regulations from 1991–1992, and later through measures taken over the following two years – during which time, the electronic data of the former Security Service (SB) was transferred from the Information Bureau of the National Police Headquarters (BI KGP) to the Information and Records and Archives Bureau of the Office for State Protection (BEiA UOP). This was accompanied by the gradual development of a new police information system – the Integrated Police Information System (Zintegrowany System Informacyjny Policji, ZSIP), which was completed in 1996.
Keywords
Zintegrowany System Kartotek Operacyjnych • ZSKO • Biuro Informatyki Komendy Głównej Policji • Biuro Ewidencji i Archiwum Urzędu Ochrony Państwa • Departament PESEL MSW • Biuro „C” MSW • Centralna Kartoteka Kryminalna • Centralne Biuro Adresowe • Centralna Kartoteka Ogólnoinformacyjna • ZSIP • Zintegrowany System Informacyjny Policji Integrated Operational Records System (Zintegrowany System Kartotek Operacyjnych, ZSKO) • Information Technology Bureau of the Central Police Headquarters • Office for State Protection Records Bureau and Archive • MSW PESEL Department • MSW Bureau “C” • Central Criminal Card Index • Central Address Bureau • Central General Information Records Office • Integrated Police Information System (Zintegrowany System Informacyjny Policji, ZSIP)
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