Organizacja i funkcjonowanie aresztów policyjnych w Królestwie Polskim w latach 1817–1867. Część I
Organization and functioning of police detention centres in the Kingdom of Poland in the years 1817–1867. Part I

Summary/Abstract: Police detention centres were created by the Government Commission of Internal and Police Affairs of October 6, 1817. They were brought to life to provide a suitable place of isolation for people arrested by the police authorities during the first steps of the investigation. However, in the following years they gained further functions as prisons for persons sentenced to short-term imprisonment or as accommodation for transported prisoners. The aim of this study is to present the legal basis for detention in police custody until the Government Commission for Internal Affairs is liquidated (1867) on the basis of administrative regulations issued by central government administration bodies and documents collected in state archives. Unfortunately, the preserved archival material is very fragmentary, it does not allow precise determination of places where police arrests have been organized, or detailed statistics on persons held in these centers. Certainly, however, we can conclude that the police detention centres in the entire period considered were mainly places of detention for police arrested persons, and that the regulations on the time of detention were repeatedly violated.

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