KORPUS POLICJI W II RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ. SLUZBA I ZYCIE PRYWATNE (CORPS OF POLICE OF THE SECOND POLISH REPUBLIC: SERVICE AND PRIVATE LIFE)

Text in Polish. 17x24, Hb, laminated, 584pp, b/w illustrations. Incl.: TAILORING THE POLICE CORPS: entering the force, selection, professional, national and religious, territorial background, educational background and further training, strength of the force: State Police, autonomous Silesian Voivodeship Police. MEMBERS OF THE FORCE: appointments; policemen and other employees: police ranks, candidates, officials and lower rank employees; service relationships; esprit de corps. MOTIVATION: disciplinary matters, reassignments, awards. SPECIFICITY OF SERVICE: uniforms; weapons; apoliticallity; uniformed service; traffic police; political police; investigative service; female police; international cooperation; police repressive measures; line of duty deaths; police during the Polish-Bolshevik war; guarding the eastern border; protection of state officials; Bereza Kartuska detention camp 1934-1939. CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND LIFE: salaries and insurance, Police Family, police press and media, sport, holidays, marriage, living conditions, vacations, medical treatment, retirement.  APPENDIXES: list of Police chiefs in 1919-1939; list of policemen killed in the line of duty; police uniforms introduced in 1920 (line drawings); police rank insignia introduced in 1920; changes in police uniforms made in 1927; police uniform for service on skis; female police uniforms; police ranks of 1936.