State Protection Service

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State Protection Service Służba Ochrony Państwa
Abbreviation	SOP
Agency overview
Formed	2018
Preceding agency	Government Protection Bureau
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Poland and abroad on official state visits of VIPs
Website
https://www.sop.gov.pl/pl/

The State Protection Service (Polish: Służba Ochrony Państwa [ˈswuʐ.ba ɔˈxrɔ.nɘ ˈpaɲ.stfa]) is a Polish uniformed service which provides VIP security for the Polish government. It was formed on 1 February 2018 as a successor to the Government Protection Bureau.

History

On 8 December 2017, the Parliament passed the Law on the State Protection Service, the Senate approved it without amendments on 21 December, and on 11 January 2018, the President signed it.

Subjects of protection

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• President of the Republic of Poland and his family
• Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland and his family
• First Lady of Poland
• Marshal of the Sejm
• Marshal of the Senate
• Deputy Prime Ministers
• Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Minister of Interior and Administration
• Minister of National Defence
• Former Presidents
• Former Prime Ministers
• Other individuals by decree of the Minister of Interior
• Foreign heads of state, governments, representatives, and diplomats while on Polish soil

Gallery

• 
  Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki surrounded in the back by SOP officers
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  SOP motorcade
• 
  President Andrzej Duda surrounded by SOP officers.

External links

• Media related to State Protection Service (Poland) at Wikimedia Commons

References

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