The alleged rape that reportedly took place in January at the riot police barracks in Piaseczno has not led to any systemic reforms, despite assurances from Poland’s Minister of the Interior and Administration, Marcin Kierwiński.
“I am in contact with the Chief Commander of the Police, Marek Boroń. There was an immediate response to the incident, procedures were launched right away. In less than 12 hours, the officer was arrested following a court decision. There will be no tolerance for this kind of behavior. He has been suspended, and he will be dismissed from the force. Cases like this will be rooted out with a red-hot iron,” Kierwiński declared several months ago.
In January, a special briefing was even held with the participation of the Interior Minister, focusing on improving supervision over police officers. Among other measures, commanders were instructed to take anonymous reports seriously. But what does this promised “rooting out” of police misconduct against women look like in practice? The case of the District Police Headquarters (KPP) in Mielec offers an unsettling answer.
The Ordeal of More Than a Dozen Women. A Police Officer Obsessed with Nude Photography
According to information obtained by us, as many as a dozen women from the Podkarpackie region—including Krosno, Nowa Dęba, and Stalowa Wola—may have fallen victim to an officer from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Mielec District Police Headquarters. The women came from various social backgrounds. Many were young, often single mothers, and frequently found themselves in difficult life circumstances. Some had visited the police station simply to handle official matters.
For years, the officer allegedly sent proposals—including to women who had come to the station in connection with official proceedings—offering to organize nude photo sessions for them. He operated a Facebook page where he showcased what he described as his “inspirations,” featuring semi-nude photographs he had taken.
According to our information, he communicated with some of the prospective “models”—as he called them while emphasizing his supposed “second profession” as a photographer—using their personal data, including phone numbers obtained through police records during official interactions.
The women claim that if they refused to reveal “more nudity,” the officer blackmailed them for months or even years using the photographs he had taken. If they declined, he allegedly threatened to reveal the images to their relatives, including new romantic partners.
The officer reportedly arranged meetings and photo sessions through private messages, inviting women to “secluded locations” and “his atmospheric premises.” According to the accounts we obtained, one such location was a garden cottage belonging to him near Mielec. Other police officers were also said to visit the property regularly.
The man allegedly told women that he wanted to establish long-term emotional relationships with them, sending intimate private messages in which he wrote that he “loved feeling this way.” However, the proposed “relationship” reportedly came with “certain conditions.” According to materials obtained by us, he suggested engaging in sadomasochistic sexual activities.
The disturbing details uncovered by our investigation go even further. We received information alleging that pornographic material was being sold online, including proposals to publish photographs taken by the officer on the OnlyFans platform. Some alleged victims also claim that other police officers—colleagues of the suspect—participated in the scheme.
Women’s Attempts to Report the Abuse
The victims sought a meeting with the Mielec District Police Commander, Paweł Leś. In June 2025, one of the women, acting on behalf of the others, sent him a written account describing the situation.
As evidence, the women submitted messages the officer had sent them through an online messaging platform, along with the photographic “inspirations” he distributed. They believed the newly appointed commander might finally put an end to the alleged misconduct. They found the courage to come forward—but to no avail. Instead, they claim they were intimidated to discourage them from pursuing the matter through official channels.
By the summer of 2025, the internal inquiry had been entirely discontinued. According to a document submitted by the Deputy District Police Commander to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Stalowa Wola—which was conducting separate proceedings involving the same officer—the entire “investigation” consisted merely of asking the officer to write an official memorandum. The justification stated: “The police officer denied engaging in the alleged conduct.” While it would be difficult to expect a suspect who had allegedly enjoyed local institutional protection to confess, he apparently overlooked the fact that the messages he had sent still existed.
The same officer also unlawfully accessed personal data belonging to one of the victims and her close family members using internal police databases, despite having no legal basis such as an active criminal investigation. This alone should have constituted a disciplinary offense leading to his immediate suspension and formal disciplinary charges. What action did the district commander take? For several months, reportedly none. Only after continued efforts by the victim was the officer allegedly given a written reprimand entered into his personnel file.
Moreover, even before the women sent their formal complaint, a female officer from the Mielec police headquarters had reportedly informed superiors that the officer required assistance from a police psychologist due to his “unusual” behavior at work.
Numerous serious complaints had been filed against the officer from the Criminal Investigation Department—in October 2023, May 2025, June 2025, and July 2025. The first warning signals, however, reportedly appeared as early as 2019.
Police and Prosecutorial Inaction
What did the police and prosecutors do in response at the various levels?
“Within the complaint proceedings conducted under the Code of Administrative Procedure, all necessary official actions were carried out in order to fully and objectively verify the circumstances described by the complainant. As a result of those activities (…) the complaint proceedings were concluded, with the complaint found to be unfounded in its essential parts,” the Mielec police headquarters told us.
The remaining complaints were likewise dismissed as unfounded.
A Lone Legal Battle and Exploiting Women’s Shame
One of the victims refused to accept that outcome and initiated legal action.
At the end of last year, she submitted complaints accusing both the Mielec police commander and the unit’s disciplinary officer of inaction. She alleged delays and the failure to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the officer, also describing what had happened to the other women. She sent the complaints to the Provincial Police Headquarters in Rzeszów, the National Police Headquarters, and the Internal Oversight Office of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration.
The Internal Affairs Bureau of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Rzeszów took over the complaint. According to the victim, notes prepared after her interview attempted to humiliate her, portray the matter as trivial, and even suggested returning the case to the prosecutor’s office without formally recording her testimony.
What did she hear from the Ministry’s Internal Oversight Office? That her complaint had been processed correctly under administrative procedure—except that it had been handled at the lowest, district level, effectively by colleagues of the accused officer.
Meanwhile, since May this year, the Inspection Department of the National Police Headquarters in Warsaw has been conducting only preliminary verification, repeatedly extending the deadline for issuing a final decision. On Friday, officials informed us that they had once again postponed the deadline—this time until July 20.
And what about the prosecution? It opened an investigation, only to discontinue it a few weeks later.
We asked the District Prosecutor’s Office in Stalowa Wola for an explanation. According to prosecutors, the information provided by the complainant “did not identify specific victims or incidents that could justify further investigative actions.”They argued that the reporting woman “did not enable the identification of potential victims.”
The prosecution questioned no one apart from the complainant. Even the officer accused by more than a dozen women was never interviewed.
The only “punishment” imposed on the officer so far has been a three-month training course for crime scene technicians at the police training center in Piła—funded by taxpayers. He was sent there only a few days after the women began, in mid-2025, exchanging information and gathering evidence regarding the alleged misconduct.
Were the alleged victims provided with any sense of security?
“According to the information available, no formal notification of suspected criminal conduct by the indicated officer against any women has been submitted. Consequently, there is no official information regarding potential victims, which precludes the conditions necessary to provide them with protection,” the National Police Headquarters stated in response to questions from Niezalezna.pl.
The officer continues to work at the Mielec District Police Headquarters. He has not even been suspended from active duty.
