Initiation of criminal proceedings in the case of intent offence subject to a public accusation as a prerequisite of suspending an officer of the Internal Security Agency and the Foreign Intelligence Agency Cover Image

Wszczęcie postępowania karnego o przestępstwo umyślne ścigane z oskarżenia publicznego jako przesłanka zawieszenia funkcjonariusza Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego i Agencji Wywiadu w czynnościach służbowych
Initiation of criminal proceedings in the case of intent offence subject to a public accusation as a prerequisite of suspending an officer of the Internal Security Agency and the Foreign Intelligence Agency

Author(s): Paweł Gacek
Subject(s): Politics, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: The Internal Security Agency; the Foreign Intelligence Agency; an officer; service; suspension from official duties

Summary/Abstract: This paper is entirely devoted to the prerequisite of obligatory suspension of an officer of the Internal Security Agency or the Foreign Intelligence Agency. This regulation is included in the Article 58 sec. 1 of the Act on the Internal Security Agency and the Foreign Intelligence Agency. Suspension from official duties is obligatory in the event of an initiation of criminal proceedings in the case of an intent offence subjected to a public accusation. Therefore, attention was focused on the wording: “initiation of criminal proceedings in the case of intent offence prosecuted with public accusation against an officer of the International Security Agency and the Foreign Intelligence Agency” as a condition enabling the use of the legal construct included in Article 58 sec. 1 of the Act on the International Security Agency and the Foreign Intelligence Agency. This happens in a situation of changing the phase of preparatory proceedings in the criminal case prosecuted against an officer of the International Security Agency or the Foreign Intelligence Agency from in rem to ad personam, submitting subsidiary indictment to the court and reopening of the criminal proceedings.

  • Issue Year: 13/2021
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 183-218
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: Polish