The fresh head of the National safety Bureau will be Sławomir Cenckiewicz, erstwhile head of the Military Historical Bureau, formerly president of the WSI liquidation commission. The nomination was announced present by President-elect Karol Nawrocki. Cenckiewicz will be succeeded by Brig-Gen Mirosław Bryś and Brig-Gen Andrzej Kowalski.
Karol Nawrocki will take office on 6 August, but present he announced the names of his associates who will be liable for safety issues. prof. Sławomir Cenckiewicz will be at the head of the BBN. During the gathering with journalists President-elect argued that the position would be taken by a "prominent intellectual" and a pro-stateist, who is at the heart of "the strength and stableness of the Republic". "He is simply a determined man, what he had the chance to prove," Nawrocki emphasized. Cenckiewicz himself pointed out that BBN under his direction would support the president in carrying out his constitutional tasks, namely the authority over the armed forces and the concern for the safety of the state. He besides announced cooperation with defence and home affairs departments. “The office will not become any kind of a simplification in the protest of everything that will be a good thought of the government,” he said. During the conference he besides spoke of a "patriotic and national identity" as a basic request for those who deal with safety issues.
Brig. Gen. Mirosław Bryś and Brig. Gen. Andrzej Kowalski will besides enter the management of BBN, as Deputy Cenckiewicz. The first will be liable for matters relating to the "dynamics of admission to the army", and the second will be head of the department for breakthrough technology. He will survey military solutions utilized during the war in Ukraine and implement them in Poland.
– I want the Presidential Palace to be the centre of the Polish safety policy in the field of military and civil, operational and analytical. I am convinced that we are going to have a successful cooperation with defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish in this regard," Nawrocki said. A fewer days ago, both politicians met. Janusz Seymej, spokesperson for the MON, stressed that this was due to the minister's "current political activity", Nawrocki, as head of the armed forces, will surely keep intense relations with the Ministry of Defence.
Sławomir Cenckiewicz She's 53. He's a historian by education. In the past, he was the head of the commission for the liquidation of Military Information Services and of the Sejm's commission for the examination of Russian influences on interior safety of the Republic of Poland. From 2016 to 1923, he was manager of the Military Historical Bureau. In May 2025, Faculty of Military territory Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw accused him of assisting him in revealing fragments of the plan to usage the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland. The declassified paper was made public by the then Minister of Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, and this happened during the election campaign.
Brig. Gen. Andrzej Bryś is simply a erstwhile Deputy Commander of the 6th Air Force, Commander of the 4th Warmia-Mazury Territorial Defence Brigade and Head of the Central Military Recruitment Centre. From a position in the last of these institutions Minister of Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish He recalled it in early 2024. Gen. Bryś was commissioned at the disposal of the manager of the MON Personnel Department and then to service in the Armed Forces Support Inspectorate. He left the army last summer. In turn Brig-Gen Andrzej Kowalski was erstwhile an associate of Antoni Macerewicz. He served as Deputy Head of Military Counterintelligence Service, and headed the Military Intelligence Service from 2015 to 2020.
BBN is simply a body supporting the President's actions in the field of safety and defence. He is liable for monitoring the situation in the army, drafting and giving opinions on strategical defence documents, and provides substantive and organisational facilities for the National safety Council's head of state.
