This direction was confirmed by official government messages, which directly indicated that The burden of combating corruption is to rest at the police, the Internal Security Agency and the National Tax Administrationwith the simultaneous creation of the “anti -corruption cover” mechanism.
The new project moves the date of liquidation of the CBA to May 1, 2026 and maintains the main assumption: in the police structure The Central Corruption Office is to be created. This is a new nationwide unit that will take over the core of tasks regarding the recognition and prosecution of corruption crimes.
At the same time, ABW and KAS are to take over these CBA competences, which are in their profiles, so that the activities carried out today are continued without breaks. Such a model was described in government materials from December 2024, and current reports about the date on May 2026 indicate the update of the schedule while maintaining this institutional architecture.
According to the statements of the coordinator of the services and the head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, CBA staff and matters are to be absorbed by new and existing institutions. Estimates given in recent days talk about the transfer of about 950 officers and about 200 civilian employees to the CBZK in the police, and other full -time jobs to Kas and ABW. This is to reduce the risk of operational paralysis and loss of investigative proficiency in the most sensitive proceedings.
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Why the government eliminates the CBA
The office argues that The CBA lost its neutrality and was politically abused, and corruption perception indicators have not improved in recent years.
In the official justification to the project version of December The government wrote about the allegations of violating the rule of law and the need to strengthen anti -corruption coordination between the services. The PiS opposition and some legal environments answer that liquidation can weaken the specialized nature of the fight against corruption and depends more on the current police priorities. The dispute has a clear political dimension, the more that the original design was suspended in the previous palace system due to the announced veto of the president.
The ruling coalition wrote the liquidation of the CBA in the coalition agreement of November 2023, so it is one of the main points of its agenda. Changing the date to May 2026 looks like an attempt to reconcile political intentions with legislative and human resources realities and with the risk of a re -dispute for the signature under the Act.
What will happen after closing the CBA
If the Act passes through the Sejm and Senate and obtains the signature of the head of the state, the CBA will formally end the activity on May 1, 2026. According to the earlier government concept, operations, analytics and controls are to be smoothly continued by CBZK in the police, ABW and KAS, Without discontinuing proceedings or automatically extinguishing operational materials.
The government also announces the creation of a central coordination point that is to guard the cohesion of anti -corruption policy and supervision quality, including public procurement and high -risk areas. The details of this component, called the anti -corruption cover, have already been signaled in documents from 2024.
After the changes entering the changes, the area of the fight against corruption will cease to be the domain of separate special service. It will be replaced by a police unit with a domestic range, strongly integrated with the police and investigation system of the police and the prosecutor's office.
Supporters of this solution are counting on greater transparency, better supervision standards and a lower risk of politicization, because the police have extensive internal control mechanisms and established process culture. Critics are afraid of a decline in specialization and prestige, as well as dispersion of some of the tasks between various organs, which may require refining the procedures for transferring cases, exchange of information and operational secrets.
The government maintains that the continuity of the activity will be provided and will not occur to the “competence hole”. These assurances appeared at the first project of 2024.
