Ministry of Services: Requesting a gathering with the President

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We have asked president Karol Nawrocki to meet with the heads of military and civilian peculiar services. We want to present plans for 2026 – informed Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Tomasz Siemoniak. Service oversight ministers have ensured that the Head of the Armed Forces is kept informed of the state safety situation.

– They are seldom mentioned due to the fact that they are not seen many times, but present in Operation "Horizon", operations related to airspace safety and our borders or securing the transfer of assistance to Ukraine is the cooperation of civilian and military services is needed," said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish at a Monday press conference. The head of the MON met with journalists together with Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, coordinator of peculiar services. "We have asked president Karol Nawrocki to meet with the heads of military and civilian peculiar services. We want to present plans for 2026 – the head of the MON informed.

As the ministers presented today, next year's military and civilian peculiar services budgets will be record-breaking. – The year 2026 will be expenditure of the Military Intelligence Service up to PLN 463 million. By comparison, in 2022 it was PLN 233 million, and the minute erstwhile we took power in 2023 was PLN 290 million. The budget in 2026 is 100% more than in 2022. A akin situation occurs in the Military Counterintelligence Service: PLN 362 million in 2022, PLN 485 million in 2023, but in 2026 it is PLN 779 million. This is 114% more compared to 2022 – presented the Minister of National Defence.

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– Compared to 2022, the budgets of the interior safety Agency and the Intelligence Agency will increase by 63 and 68 percent in 2026 respectively," Minister Siemoniak said. “This is the scale of appreciation by Donald Tusk’s government of peculiar services, which are the first line of action,” noted the coordinator of peculiar services.

Additional resources will be utilized both to increase the staffing of all 4 institutions, to fund operations, to improve the attractiveness of service to soldiers and officers, and to invest in modern equipment to facilitate regular tasks.

Today, ministers have besides informed about the crucial expansion of their field troops. In 2025, the inspectorates of SKW in Olsztyn, Rzeszów, Wrocław and Bydgoszcz were created or reopened, as well as 5 exhibitions: in Przemyśl, Zamość, Opole, Ciechanów and Wałcz. According to the Minister of Defence, fresh or restored service facilities were located either on the east wall of the country, where after the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine it was essential to strengthen intelligence protection or where fresh military units and institutions (Wrocław, Bydgoszcz or Ciechanów) were created. civilian services besides increased the number of field troops – in 2024 a decision was taken to reinstate the action of 10 abroad delegations of ABW.

According to Minister Siemoniak, the gathering with the president is besides to discuss the blocked nominations for the first officer's degree in SKW and ABW. president Nawrocki refused to sign the nomination acts before the National independency Day. He argued that he had not had the chance to meet with the service chiefs earlier to discuss the proposed candidatures. – These are large people, perfectly prepared, very motivated patriots. They absolutely do not deserve to wait for officer nominations," said Tomasz Siemoniak. – I besides want to guarantee that the president of Poland and its officials receive all the information, as it was for erstwhile presidents. Nothing crucial and important, nothing the president should know about escapes the attention of the service, and specified information reaches the president," he said.

Mr Maciej Chilchuk

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