A year earlier, 19 officers had been accused of 36 such offenses, the newspaper said. That meant the number of suspects increased by nearly 70% in a year, while the number of alleged drug crimes more than doubled.
The report said that, overall, 300 police officers were charged in 2025 with committing 699 offenses of various kinds as a result of investigations by the Police Internal Affairs Bureau.
It added that officers with between four and 10 years of service most often faced charges, accounting for 32% of those accused.
“In a short time, the number of suspects increased by nearly 70%”, the newspaper wrote. “In the past year, nearly three drug-related charges fell on each person, compared with fewer than two a year earlier”.
Jan Gołębiowski, a former police psychologist, criminal profiler and court expert, said the pattern reflected broader social change.
“In the past, if a police officer reached for stimulants, it was alcohol; now it is drugs”, he told Rzeczpospolita. “Police officers are not from another planet, but are part of society and its reflection”.
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Source: PAP