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A conference was held at the Ministry's headquarters today (May 23 this year) with the participation of the Minister of Justice, Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar, Deputy Minister of Justice Maria Ejchart and the Director General of the Prison Service, Col. Andrzej Peck. The topic was the status and functioning of the Justice Academy.
The university, which was established in 2019 as a result of the transformation of the Central Training Center of the Prison Service in Kalisz, was intended to educate Prison Service officers. However, the level of this education is questioned by the current leadership of the Ministry of Justice.
– The functioning of the Academy of Justice raises our doubts – admitted Minister Adam Bodnar. - We should restore the original meaning and mission of the Central Prison Staff Training Center and strive for changes in the functioning of AWS - he emphasized.
Deputy Minister Maria Ejchart, responsible for the Prison Service at the Ministry, also commented on doubts regarding the Academy.
– As a result of legislative changes, the Academy of Justice has changed from a school that educated prison staff to a training ground for political justice staff. Today, it is a school that, despite significant financial outlays, does not meet the needs of the Prison Service, emphasized Deputy Minister Ejchart. She also pointed out that the academy is currently headed by the rector, appointed by the university's Senate, which is unusual in the case of uniformed universities. Rectors of such universities should be appointed by the Minister of Justice.
Among the reservations, the Ministry's management also mentioned the fact that the university received (non-competitive) funding from the Justice Fund for 5 projects. Three of these agreements were concluded after the last parliamentary elections, and the total funding budget exceeded PLN 34 million.
According to the deputy head of the ministry, the university also consumes huge financial resources from the state budget. In 2019, its activities cost just over PLN 7 million, in 2024 the budget is PLN 150 million. – Despite such enormous financial, premises and human resources, AWS does not meet the needs of the Prison Service – noted the deputy minister.
In addition, the university has been equipped with numerous properties throughout the country. They were awarded, among others: by the decision of the then minister Marcin Romanowski, although these were facilities necessary for the functioning of the Prison Service.
Andrzej Pecka, General Director of the Prison Service, spoke on the matter of the Academy of Justice and emphasized that by creating this school, a number of properties worth several dozen million zlotys were withdrawn from the Prison's resources.
– At the beginning of April, I sent a notification to the national prosecutor about the possibility of committing a crime both by the former management of the Central Board of the Prison Service and by members of the then management of the Ministry of Justice – admitted Director Pecka.
He also noted that at the moment, the Security Service employs mostly officers with very little seniority in service.
– The establishment of the Justice Academy completely destroyed the training system in the Prison Service. This school has been completely separated from the structure of the organizational units of the Prison Service, he said.
The Ministry of Justice has prepared a draft bill aimed at establishing a school that will educate Prison Service officers so that they can perform their service in a professional and safe manner.
– We want to change the name of the university to the Academy of Prison Service, which will be a vocational university supervised by the Director General of the Prison Service and the Minister of Justice, and a school that will prepare for obtaining an officer's rank, announced Deputy Minister Ejchart.
