A spokesman for the Police Main Headquarters, inspector Mariusz Ciarka, said that "The Police management decided to distinguish police officers in primary positions, allocating as much as 54 million PLN (about 12,136,000 EUR) from the police budget." The awards were given for numerous additional tasks that officers had to perform during the state of the epidemic. 53 000 policemen were awarded with amounts from 1000 PLN (about 225 EUR) gross. In addition, people in executive positions will be paid the equivalent for overtime work - 140 million PLN (about 31,464,000 EUR).

"The management of the Polish Police is aware that policemen, while serving at sanitary checkpoints, at the border of the State or checking quarantined persons, performed their duties at risk of their own health and life. It is worth recalling that as many as 7 million times people in quarantined have already been checked" - is the statement of the spokesperson of Police Main Headquarters. Now the officers' dedicated service is being honored.

Source: Defence24.pl

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