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Municipality Cannot Donate Computers Directly to Police Station
🇵🇱 Poland /Crime & Justice

Municipality Cannot Donate Computers Directly to Police Station

From Rzeczpospolita · () Polish

Translated from Polish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • A Regional Audit Chamber ruling says municipalities cannot support police stations through in-kind donations such as computer equipment.
  • Under Poland’s Police Act, local governments may help finance police operations through the Police Support Fund.
  • The ruling means a municipality seeking to buy equipment for police must use the legally prescribed financial route.

A Polish municipality cannot buy computers for a police station as an in-kind donation, according to a post-audit statement from the Regional Audit Chamber in Łódź dated Aug. 4, 2026.

Local government units may support the police, but the assistance must follow the procedure set out in the Police Act. The law provides for financial participation in the costs of police operations through the Police Support Fund.

The ruling applies to donations of physical equipment, including computers. Support must instead take a financial form and be transferred through the designated fund.

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Originally published by Rzeczpospolita in Polish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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