Pic of Polish (anti-riot?) Police Unit before WW2

[Switek]

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/8765/policja8xl.jpg

http://www.odkrywca-online.com/forum_pics/picsforum16/policja_copy.jpg

no caption or details... Has anyone got any info or more pix?


other pix of Polish Police from 2nd Republic of Poland

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1313/dsc044373dx.jpg

[zapatero]

I didn't knew that Poland had anti-riot police units before WW2. These guys on that pic look like returning from Grunwald battle or even better - they're preparing to encounter the Kelly gang in Australia. I wonder about that helmets. Are these German WW1 design? Anyway great find as always Switek.

[marlowe]

no caption or details... Has anyone got any info or more pix?



Only in Polish:

"Powyższy tekst należy uzupełnić o informacje na temat wyposażenia jakim posługiwali się Policjanci Oddziałów Rezerwy. Policjanci byli umundurowani w zwykłe mundury Policji Państwowej. W czasie wystąpień przeciwko tłumowi Policjanci byli wyposażani w hełmy, jednak tych zawsze był niedobór. Pierwszymi hełmami używanymi w Oddziałach Rezerwy PP były hełmy francuskie wz.15, pojawiły się one na początku lat 20-tych. Na hełmach tych zazwyczaj mocowano metalowe orły państwowe, jednak były też hełmy niemieckie bez emblematu orła. Później pojawiły się hełmy niemieckie i nieznacznie się różniące - hełmy austryjackie wz. 17. Zazwyczaj z przodu umieszczany był dużych rozmiarów orzeł państwowy. Hełmy te były koloru czarnego lub ciemnogranatowego Po uruchomieniu produkcji polskich hełmów wz. 31 PP przyjęła również ten tym hełmów i w przyszłości zamierzała zastąpić nimi całkowicie hełmy niemieckie i austryjackie. Oddziały Rezerwy PP posiadały także metalowe pancerze chroniące tors i metalowe tarcze. Jednak było tego zaledwie 450 sztuk. Do rozpraszania manifestacji Funkcjonariusze używali gumowych pałek, a także kolb karabinów, bagnetów, oraz ostrej amunicji. Co ciekawe - w Warszawie Oddziały Rezerwy posiadały armatkę wodną produkowaną przez zakłady "Ursus". W tamtym czasie pojazd ten nazywano "tankiem wodnym", spotyka się także określenie "wóz-hydrant", natomiast w żargonie warszawiaków pojazd ten to "kaczka"."

from: http://zomoza.kgb.pl/

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WTF ? Knights ? :)

[herbal718]

I tried to translate the above Polish explanation of the pictures as best I could.

The above text will attempt to inform you about the equipment that was used by reserve police officers. The police officers were outfitted with standard national police uniforms. While performing their duty controlling a crowd of people, they wore helmets, which were not always available. The first helmets used in the Polish police reserves were French made, version 15, they began being used in the 1920's. On these helmets, usually there were attached nationalistic eagles, however, there were some German helmets without the nationalistic emblem of the eagle. Later, more German helmets showed, not being that different from their predecessor, there were also Austrian version 17 helmets. However this time, in the front there was a large seized national eagle. These helmets where black and dark purple in color. After the start of Polish made helmets, version 31, the manufacturer used similar designs to those of the German and Austrian. However, the Polish made helmets where to eventually replace the German and Austrian made helmets all together. The police reserves also had metal body armor protecting their body, as well as metal shields. However, there were only about 450 pieces of this equipment. To disrupt crowds, they used rubber bats, rifle stocks, bayonets, and also live ammunition. What's interesting is, the Warsaw division of police reserves used water cannons, produced by manufacturer "Ursus". In that time, the vehicle was called a "water tank", also sometimes called "hydrant-truck", however within the Warsaw community, this vehicle was called a "Duck".

[Ruledbyjames]

Great pics...now thats what I call rare!!

[grey27]

Great and rare pics thanks!

[Wojsko Polskie]

Cool stuff, nice find Switek :)

[daily666]

Awesome stuff Switek, woot I didn't know Policja Panstwowa had such units before the war.

[Jocker_89]

Great pics !!! :)

Awesome stuff Switek, woot I didn't know Policja Panstwowa had such units before the war.

me too :)

[Insane Tadpole]

thats pretty awesome stuff... verry rare.... we need more posts like this one here..... good stuff.

[nick_ua]

http://www.odkrywca-online.com/forum_pics/picsforum16/policja_copy.jpg
cannot stop laighing. that one is hilarious


we need more posts like this one here..... good stuff.
right, who need a comedy central if you have this

[Denat]

http://www.odkrywca-online.com/forum_pics/picsforum16/policja_copy.jpg
cannot stop laighing. that one is hilarious


right, who need a comedy central if you have this

right, trolling in polish threads is your only hobby, poor guy :hug:

[nick_ua]

sure buddy thats all my fault, I made this halloween costume and put it on couple man and call them Poles riot police, why I don't know. I'm so sorry for that

http://www.odkrywca-online.com/forum_pics/picsforum16/policja_copy.jpg
http://www.russianamerica.com/ic/img.lenta.ru/news/2005/04/14/dress/picture.jpg
http://emeraldcity.ru/fanfic/drovosek.jpg

[Polak]

nick_ua, you are a stupid ****. I have followed your post for over a year. I will wrape your whore mother and I will butcher your idiotic father as we Poles did to you "ukranians"(rebelious Polish pesants) before.

[dundun]

Nick is just pissed that Poland helped Ukraine on the right track to Europe. He as a russian is missing the good old sovjet times with mother Russia controlling independent countries.:bash:

Post sovjet mentality - NickUA.

[Wojsko Polskie]

nick_ua, you are a stupid ****. I have followed your post for over a year. I will wrape your whore mother and I will butcher your idiotic father as we Poles did to you "ukranians"(rebelious Polish pesants) before. Shut up man...I agree what Nick said was stupid but what you said is even more stupid...you're no better than him for saying that.

And to Nick...if all you're going to do is pull smart comments out of your ass and post them in threads about Polish subjects, I suggest you find another hobby.

[TR1]

Post sovjet mentality - NickUA.

no, NickUA = mentality of many many Ukranians who realize that close relationships with Russia is what the Ukriane needs.

[Switek]

Shut up man...I agree what Nick said was stupid but what you said is even more stupid...you're no better than him for saying that.

And to Nick...if all you're going to do is pull smart comments out of your ass and post them in threads about Polish subjects, I suggest you find another hobby.

Noone Polish mp.net member would call himself "Polak". I noticed that some Russian friends use so called "Polish" accounts to disprage Poland and Poles, esp. when they can not find arguments... So called "polak" with 5 post is doing nothing byt has been monitiring posts of some meber for one year :cantbeli: ... someone suffers for paranoia p-)

let's back to the topic

[nick_ua]

Post sovjet mentality - NickUA
right, if you knew what are talking about, I would probably argue with you, but for start read what The Russian1 said

Nick is just pissed that Poland helped Ukraine on the right track to Europe
wtf are you talking about. Poland couldn't help themself get out from the deep **** they are in for a long time, and how the hell they can even help anybody.
"right track" my ass


And to Nick...if all you're going to do is pull smart comments out of your ass and post them in threads about Polish subjects, I suggest you find another hobby.
Dude what is wrong with you. Guy posted funny Halloween costumes, I pointed it out, is this my fault that they come up with this idea to create this clown metal pots and let other people wear them?
And most of the time people like you actually pointing this bull**** or look at these russians, they hate poles thats why they doing that, and then couple sh*theads start crying how dare they are pointed our stupidity to us bla bla.
Or Poles in this forum are a saint cows nobody can say anything bad, funny about them?


Noone Polish mp.net member would call himself "Polak". I noticed that some Russian friends use so called "Polish" accounts to disprage Poland and Poles,
thanks for pointing this out.
But I still confused in right spelling, most russians say poliak, cause this is a russian wordfro people leave in poland.
So how should I call people who leave in Poland

[Matrix33]

But I still confused in right spelling, most russians say poliak, cause this is a russian wordfro people leave in poland.
So how should I call people who leave in Poland

I don't know how to name those people leaving in Poland.
And what is the word for people who live in Poland then? p-)
Joke
But Nick - for those pictures - how do you think riot police should be equiped before II ww? There was no kevlar, advanced plastic, plexiglass etc. Look at modern riot police - they are armoured like medieval knights or roman legions and nobody's complaining about that.. Operators shown on that pictures are well equipped for those times and believe me - they would be very hard to beat by any rioting mob because of their protection.
Cool down man.

[corran.pl]

no, NickUA = mentality of many many Ukranians who realize that close relationships with Russia is what the Ukriane needs.

A so close relation with Russia needs to offend Poland and Polish Citizens on every possible occasion?

[TR1]

A so close relation with Russia needs to offend Poland and Polish Citizens on every possible occasion?
me? you know I dont ever insult Poles corran.

Nick? he was just pointing out the funny look of the Polish poilicemen dressed in "armour". nothing more.

[corran.pl]

Nick? he was just pointing out the funny look of the Polish poilicemen dressed in "armour". nothing more.

Yes, and you know that he is pointing "some things" every time when he has occasion to make laugh of or offend Poles.

[Kvakva]

Noone Polish mp.net member would call himself "Polak".
I dunno Switek, but you know that polish is "поляк" in russian. So polak is insulting to polish people?

[daily666]

I dunno Switek, but you know that polish is "поляк" in russian. So polak is insulting to polish people?

No, Polak is Polak and means someone of Polish origin, a Pole. In Russian it's Poliak (Paliak?). Americans use Pollack as an offensive name for Polish people. Let's just leave this case.


Thread on...

[SANDSTORM]

me? you know I dont ever insult Poles corran.

Nick? he was just pointing out the funny look of the Polish poilicemen dressed in "armour". nothing more.

I'm glad that you said that because every time somebody points out something funny in russian pictures all hell brakes.
So the next time I will see something funny i pics of russian army I make sure to poin it out since it's OK.

[Wojsko Polskie]

Dude what is wrong with you. Guy posted funny Halloween costumes, I pointed it out, is this my fault that they come up with this idea to create this clown metal pots and let other people wear them?

That's just the thing- they're NOT funny Halloween costumes. Like Matrix33 said, I think it's pretty obvious that they wouldn't have Kevlar body armour and plexiglass shields.

[n_shanygin]

sure buddy thats all my fault, I made this halloween costume and put it on couple man and call them Poles riot police, why I don't know. I'm so sorry for that

http://www.odkrywca-online.com/forum_pics/picsforum16/policja_copy.jpg
http://www.russianamerica.com/ic/img.lenta.ru/news/2005/04/14/dress/picture.jpg
http://emeraldcity.ru/fanfic/drovosek.jpg

hahaha :D




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[Kvakva]

So the next time I will see something funny i pics of russian army I make sure to poin it out since it's OK.
You and at least half a million of others.
Feel free to do it - but dont cry than you get the same treatment for overdoing it with the jokes.

[Switek]

Ok. Nick's irony and his taste is questionable... But those pix are funny, no doubt but also there are a lot unique historic information about attemps to make some protection armour for policemen about 70 years ago... This is just discovery for myself ;)